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Written Question
Driving under Influence
Wednesday 4th December 2024

Asked by: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to lower the blood alcohol content limit for driving.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

This Government takes road safety seriously, and we are committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads. We are currently considering policy options in this area.

Since the general election, the Department has also begun work on a new Road Safety Strategy, the first in over a decade. The Department will share more details in due course.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Jul 2019
HS2: Cost

"My Lords, is there not a problem with the way we keep the cost of these projects under review? We had the same difficulty with Crossrail and, as I understand it, people have been raising questions from within the HS2 project since as far back as 2015, complaining about how …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill

"Can the Minister expand a little further on that? Are the Government positively taking action, or are they waiting for a groundswell of demand before they will take action?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill

"My Lords, I rise to express my full support for the contribution just made by the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington. I regret that I was unable to be here for Committee last week, but I did speak at Second Reading and gave a list of locations which I believe would …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill

"Can the Minister say why the mayors are calling for the change in the amendment? They are on the spot in the cities around the country and know the difficulties; they are asking for the change. Why are we refusing it?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill

"My Lords, in the absence of the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, I shall move the amendment she has tabled. I shall not speak at any great length on it. The change which has been tabled is welcome, but it falls considerably short of what we were hoping for and, in …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill

"My Lords, having been critical, I now extend a word of gratitude. In particular, I welcome subsection (1)(b) of the proposed new clause in the amendment to which the Minister drew attention, because that will definitely be needed in the future. It is a very helpful amendment indeed...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 20 Feb 2018
Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill

"My Lords, I welcome the Bill generally. As the Minister stated when she moved the Second Reading, the Government have said that, by 2050, nearly all cars and vans should be zero-emission vehicles. As other noble Lords have said, that is not a particularly stretching target compared to the ambitions …..."
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