Question follow-through · 100420
Driving under Influence: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made about the current levels of [i] drink driving and [ii] drug driving related accidents and fatalities on roads in the [i] UK, and [ii] Leicestershire.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made about the current levels of [i] drink driving and [ii] drug driving related accidents and fatalities on roads in the [i] UK, and [ii] Leicestershire.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2025
Answer published
Statistics regarding drink and drug driving in personal injury road collisions in Great Britain are based on data reported to police using the STATS19 system. The estimated number of collisions and fatalities in drink-drive collisions for Great Britain an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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