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I end with this crucial point. People using disposable barbecues on heather moors or upland heaths do not apply to Defra for a licence. They do not care about the depth of peat, but they cause the most destruction: more than any controlled heather burning ever does. We are obsessed with moorland owners doing a controlled burn, but we are not taking seriously the huge damage caused by wildfires caused by human stupidity. So I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, that, if public education does not work, get the shops to stop selling them and, if that fails, go for a ban on the filthy things.