Member

To return to the theme of responsibility, I believe that companies using bicycle courier services should share responsibility, taking steps to ensure that their employees and, crucially, contractors abide by the law. But, for that to happen, we need to accept our responsibility, as your Lordships’ House, for providing the most effective legislative framework to facilitate the change we all want: safer, careful and considerate cycling, especially by bicycle courier services. Looking the other way and pretending that there is not a problem is neither a realistic nor a responsible option. The problem is happening now, and we need to start addressing it now. My amendment would enable us to do so.