Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the length of sentences handed down to people who have been convicted of causing death by (a) careless and (b) dangerous driving; and if he will make a statement.

There has been a long term decrease in the number of cases of causing death by careless and dangerous driving and, generally, an increase in the average custodial sentence lengths.

Information on the length of custodial sentences imposed for offenders convicted of causing death by careless and dangerous driving can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/428943/cjs-outcomes-by-offence-data-tool.xls.