Question follow-through · 4405
Dangerous Driving: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of penalties for dangerous driving.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of penalties for dangerous driving.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Department for Transport has not recently assessed the adequacy of penalties for dangerous driving. The Government is committed to delivering a new Road Safety Strategy, the first in over a decade. We will set out next steps on this in due course.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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