Question follow-through · 76107
Dangerous Driving: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of drivers accused of death by dangerous driving have pleaded exceptional hardship.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of drivers accused of death by dangerous driving have pleaded exceptional hardship.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions for a wide range of offences, including causing death by dangerous driving in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Crimina...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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County Courts: Road Traffic Offences
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Domestic Abuse: Administration of Justice
13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to prevent the misuse of civil and family court proceedings as a form of post-separation abuse and coercive control.
Domestic Abuse: Family Proceedings
13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department monitors outcomes in family court cases involving domestic abuse to identify patterns of harm arising from (a) repeated and (b) prolonged proceedings.