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

  1. 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.

  2. 27 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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