Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they propose to clarify the criminal law relating to the use of mobile phones and similar devices by motorists.
Government imposed tougher penalties last year for the offence of using a hand-held mobile phone while driving, and continues to keep the legislation under review.
The Department for Transport is currently consulting on an isolated amendment to the mobile phone offence to permit the use of hand-held and mobile communications devices as a means of performing remote control parking manoeuvres. The Department will consider changes to the regulations and to the Highway Code following that consultation.