Road Traffic Penalties

HC Deb 10 April 2002 vol 383 cc357-8W

Mr. Lazarowicz

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to bring forward proposals arising from the road traffic penalties review. [43859]

Mr. Denham

We are currently in the process of formulating the Government's response to the consultation exercise on road traffic penalties. We hope to publish this soon.

This report has taken some time to complete due to the high number of responses we received. We have also been waiting for the outcome of the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions commissioned research project into the law on dangerous driving by the Transport Research Laboratory. The publication of this report was delayed until January 2002 and we are now considering its findings.