Road Traffic Offences: Mobile Phones

(asked on 7th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of current penalties for drivers using mobile telephones.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 14th March 2017

The current increased penalties for drivers using mobile phones only came into effect on 1 March 2017. The Department will initiate work to allow for an assessment of the effectiveness of the penalties later this year.

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