Question follow-through · 33333
Road Traffic Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of enabling the use of electronic signatures, matched to the DVLA database, for admissions of vehicular offences on S172 forms.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of enabling the use of electronic signatures, matched to the DVLA database, for admissions of vehicular offences on S172 forms.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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27 Feb 2025
Answer published
Whilst the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 does not explicitly require wet signatures, the Penalty Notice System for Policing does not currently have the capability to match signatures between DVLA and s.172 forms.A number of forces have additional softwa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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