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@tynan
The truffle sounds decent, nice find.
On a more serious note, there is a good reason helmets are not compulsory - extensive studies (build on top of Australian studies if I remember correctly) have shown that legislating for compulsory helmet use would put many people off cycling (especially the casual / fair weather cyclist) - so many that the impact on societal heath would be greater than the gains in safety.
So mandating helmet use would impact negatively on societal heath when the broader view is taken into account.
Now, if the idea of a cycling MOT / proficiency test is to increase road sense for the purpose of safety (which I don't doubt it will do) the overall effect is likely to be a lowering of societal heath if the helmet studies are a fair guide to how this impacts of cycling take up.