Question follow-through · 8986
Road Traffic Offences: Speed Limits
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the penalty points system in deterring repeat speeding offenders.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 11 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the penalty points system in deterring repeat speeding offenders.
18 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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18 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Department for Transport does not hold an estimate of the number of speeding offenders who go on to commit additional motoring offences. The Home Office, which publishes statistics on roads policing, has confirmed that this information is not held.The...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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