Member

I feel strongest about my Amendment 111. The Minister must recognise that a number of noble Lords on this side have a lot of local government experience. Mine, when it comes to enforcing highways Acts, particularly against bicycles and other such objects that are placed on the highway, creating an obstruction, is that local authorities are in principle willing to do it. The problem is that they cannot then destroy or dispose of the bicycle for a very long time, so they have no real power to do that. They have to put them into storage and the amount of storage that they have is limited. Creating more storage is expensive, so they do not do it. Consequently, they do not remove the bikes in the first place, because they have nowhere to put them.