Question follow-through · 40431
Driving under Influence: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of drug driving offences were given the maximum sentence in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of drug driving offences were given the maximum sentence in each of the last five years.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on drug driving offence convictions. This is available in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.The number of c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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