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At a recent Question Time debate, the noble Lord, Lord Browne of Ladyton, argued that the reason for the Scottish failure was that it was not coupled with extra enforcement. Surely, if we improved enforcement of our current limits, especially in respect of high levels of intoxication, we would do better. I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, and the noble Lord, Lord Browne, for supporting my Amendment 398, which, in effect, provides for random breath tests, but does not require the police to do anything. It merely removes some of the burdensome restrictions that I suspect were made on the introduction of breath testing in 1968.