Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, whether in their assessment of the case for reducing the drink drive limit they took account of the fall in drink drive law enforcement levels in the last five years set out in the report from the Institute of Alcohol Studies.

The Government welcomes the report from the Institute of Alcohol Studies, but has no plans for lowering the drink drive limit in England and Wales.

Police have the powers they need to keep our roads safe, and latest Department for Transport figures show that fewer people died on British roads in 2015 as a result of drink driving than in any year since records began. It is for Chief Constables and locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners to decide how to deploy their resources in response to local priorities.