Driving: Blood Alcohol Limit

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton Excerpts

Wednesday 12th December 2012 Lords Chamber

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, one option—and it is only an option—would be to deal with the problem of tragic accidents where several youngsters are killed in one vehicle. These are very distressing accidents and we need to consider whether we should allow a young driver to carry several youngsters. However, there is a contrary argument, which noble Lords opposite articulated when they were Ministers, that that could have an economic effect. It could mean that the system of one sober driver might not work. So we need to consider carefully what the options are to make sure that there are no unintended consequences.

[Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton]

My Lords, will the Minister tell your Lordships’ House which drugs will be detected if the detection equipment is found to be reliable?

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, we are shortly going to be publishing the review of the expert panel which will tell us which drugs and what levels for each drug will be detected, based on scientific evidence, and the risk associated with them.