Roads: Young Drivers

Lord Dubs Excerpts

Monday 12th January 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Kramer]

At the moment, Members of your Lordships' House may themselves have driving insurance that has telematics attached. Anyone going on to one of the websites and looking at various insurance premiums will see that discounts are available for most companies if there is an agreement to use the telematics system. It is still obviously fairly early on in its life. That is why we need to have research, because we want to understand whether there is a good relationship between this ongoing monitoring of what is happening in the car and the actual accidents about which we are all concerned.

[Lord Dubs (Lab)]

The Minister has not mentioned young motorcyclists. Are they not the group that is particularly in danger of accidents?

[Baroness Kramer]

The noble Lord is right that young motorcyclists are also disproportionately engaged in accidents. I am frankly not clear on the insurance and telematics potential for motorcycles, and I will have to write to him on that.