Road Traffic Offences

HC Deb 22 July 1998 vol 316 c545W

Mr. Stephen Twigg

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will refer the issue of lenient sentences for road traffic offences to the new Sentencing Advisory Council. [51407]

Mr. Michael

The Court of Appeal has already established detailed sentencing guidelines for serious road traffic offences, in the cases of R.v. Boswell (1984) and AG Ref. 14 and 24 of 1993. Once the new Sentencing Advisory Panel has been established, we will consider whether there are particular categories of offences which should be referred to it and with what degree of priority.