Member

I dispute that this evidence is of any real value. First, it comes from Action on Smoking and Health, which is a ludicrous source for the Government to rely on from a statistical point of view. As the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, mentioned the other day, it is as if the noble Lord, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, had turned up at the Dispatch Box and said that the Government were relying on the London Cycling Campaign for the statistics that they would use on road traffic in London. These are highly biased, partisan organisations that produce statistics to order.