Question follow-through · 47140
Road Traffic Offences: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to introduce stricter penalties for mobile phone use while driving.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to introduce stricter penalties for mobile phone use while driving.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
Government keeps motoring offences under review, and is considering possible interventions.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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