Question follow-through · 83675
Road Traffic Offences: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the penalty for driving without (a) a license and (b) L plates.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the penalty for driving without (a) a license and (b) L plates.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2025
Answer published
This Government takes road safety seriously. We are committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads.We are considering a range of policies under the new Road Safety Strategy, the first for 10 years. This includes the case for ch...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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