Lord Berkeleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether John Denham is correctly reported to have said that, "our aim is not to catch speeding motorists"; if so, whether they intend to enforce any speed limits; and how. [HL1914]
§ The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Rooker)My right honourable friend's words are correctly but not fully reported. What he said was, "Our aim is not to catch speeding motorists but to reduce injuries and crashes at known accident hotspots".
There is no doubt of our commitment and that of the police to enforce speed limits against those drivers who would seek to disregard them. The whole purpose of speed limits, however, is to prevent injuries and deaths on our roads. We would far rather that people complied with the speed limits than that they broke the law and had to have proceedings taken against them.