PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Road Traffic Offences (3 December 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the recent Government consultation on New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury while cycling, whether his Department has consulted on introducing new road traffic offences committed by people other than cyclists.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

The recent consultation related specifically to proposals for new cycling offences.

In October last year the Government provided its response to the consultation on serious driving offences and confirmed its intention to increase the maximum penalties for causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving while under the influence of drink or drugs from 14 years’ imprisonment to life and to create a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving.

Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
11 December 2018