| Heading: |
Road Traffic Offences: Sentencing |
| Question ID: |
1758456 |
| UIN: |
26258 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5302 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Noah Law
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Noah Law
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to increase the maximum sentence for (a) failing to stop at and (b) report a road accident, known as hit and run accidents, from six months to ten years. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-29 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4029 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lilian Greenwood
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| Answering Member handle: |
LilianGreenwood
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@LilianGreenwood
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
This Government takes road safety seriously, and we are committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads. We are currently considering policy options, including possible changes to motoring offences. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |