HC Deb 10 July 1989 vol 156 c414W
52. Mr. Ken Hargreaves

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will consider introducing a programme to change the attitudes of drunk drivers.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

We announced proposals to carry out a major experiment in the use of rehabilitation courses designed to influence the attitudes of drunk drivers in the White Paper "The Road User and the Law" published on 7 February this year. In England and Wales, enabling powers will be required for the courts to order rehabilitation for those convicted of drink-drive offences. In Scotland, we are looking into the possibility of setting up a trial scheme employing the existing powers of the courts.

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