Road Safety Bill [HL]

Could we think a little bit about secondary legislation? Secondary legislation is a well known hidey-hole for the Government. We debate things during the progress of the Bill, and then secondary legislation comes before us. We are very limited in what we can do with it. We can talk about it. I may be wrong, but I think that we can throw the legislation out—I am not sure whether that has ever happened—but we cannot amend it. Secondary legislation is, if one might put it this way, second-rate. Would it not be better to put such matters into primary legislation? I know that the Government often do that, because governments like to govern, but Parliament should have some say in how they govern.