Automated Vehicles Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)

Debate between Grahame Morris and Nickie Aiken

Committee stage
Tuesday 19th March 2024 Public Bill Committees

[Grahame Morris]

I am grateful. That is quite an important point about regulation and not banning things, but can we just be cognisant of what has happened recently where we have taken a more laissez-faire attitude, such as in relation to pedicabs or the electric cycles that are littering the pavements?

[Nickie Aiken (Cities of London and Westminster) (Con)]

Hear, hear.

[Grahame Morris]

Nobody wants to ban them completely, but if we had taken a harder line at the outset on the framework in which they operate, many of those problems could have been avoided. That is all that we on the Opposition Benches are saying.