Road Traffic Offences: Mobile Phones

(asked on 8th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the introduction of alternative penalties to fines for drivers using mobile telephones.


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

The Government increased the fixed penalty notice for using a hand held phone when driving from 3 to 6 points and £100 to £200 from 1 March 2017.

We do not plan any further measures until we have evaluated the effectiveness of these new penalties.

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