Road Traffic Offences

(asked on 27th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of any correlation between the non-enforcement of low-level road user penalties and the rate of serious offences.


Answered by
Lord Bates Portrait
Lord Bates
This question was answered on 2nd February 2016

No assessment has been made of any correlation between the non-enforcement of low-level road user penalties and the rate of serious offences. It is an operational matter for the police to decide how they enforce road traffic legislation and what action may be appropriate in any particular case.

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