Heavy Goods Vehicles: Speeding Offences (Hansard, 26 November 2001)

HL Deb 26 November 2001 vol 629 c5WA 5WA

§ Viscount Simon
asked Her Majesty's Government:

(a) how many speeding offences involving heavy goods vehicles and public services vehicles have involved speeds in excess of national limits for the vehicles in question over the last three years for which figures are available;

(b) how many of these vehicles involved in these offences have been found to have defective speed governors; and

(c) what penalties have been imposed as a result. [HL1356]

§ Lord Rooker
The Home Office, Northern Ireland Office and the Scottish Executive do not collect information on the type of vehicle involved in speeding offences.