Health Bill

I listened to the Minister, hoping that I would have no further questions to ask. Luckily, my noble friend Lord Liverpool came to half my rescue on drop-heads. I hope that the Minister is not suggesting that we use case law in this respect. I have two drop-heads and they are substantially unenclosed; they only come out when the drop-head can come down. One of them was a company car. Will the Minister confirm that bicycle rickshaws are exempt? He will be aware that they are becoming more common in London and, for all I know, elsewhere. I assume that they are exempt vehicles. May I also have clarification on company pool cars? When I was a Deputy Speaker in the other place, being the last to leave, I used the government car pool service. Unlike Ministers, I did not have a designated car and, presumably, if I were a smoker I would not have been able to smoke in the pool car. That may apply to every company in the land that has pool cars for business, but it needs clarification. The Minister keeps referring to a vehicle that is used by one person and is owned by that person. The Government need to be clear on the meaning of ““ownership””. Is a lease vehicle owned by the person? I can tell the Minister that technically, under company law, it is not, but perhaps the Department of Health feels that it is. These niggly areas may be covered by regulations, but the Minister needs to give guidance on them, not least because there is a great rush, under pressure from the Liberal Democrats, to implement the Bill. We return to the point made by my noble friend on the Front Bench that Parliament must give people time to adjust. If these issues are not clarified early on and the basic rules are not known, people cannot complete a vehicle renewal policy. On chain ferries, those that I have used in Scotland have an area where the chap driving it sits and the drivers of the cars can walk around. I am not sure whether people can smoke on them or not, so perhaps the Minister can clarify that, too. Finally, I heard the dreaded phrase ““limited list”” fall from the Minister’s mouth. I would have thought that by now the Department of Health would have realised that the limited list is a dangerous area to go into. With the leave of the Committee, subject to the Minister giving me a clear answer on the issues I have raised, I shall withdraw the amendment. At this point, I await the Minister’s response.