Question follow-through · 54553
Road Traffic Offences: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to review sentencing for (a) careless driving that leads to (i) serious injury and (ii) death and (b) other driving offences.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to review sentencing for (a) careless driving that leads to (i) serious injury and (ii) death and (b) other driving offences.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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4 Jun 2025
Answer published
Safety on our roads is an absolute priority for this Government. That is why the Department for Transport is committed to delivering a new Road Safety Strategy – the first in over a decade. They will set out next steps on this in due course.Provisions in ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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