PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(8 September 2026)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Victims, Violence Against Women and Girls, and International Justice on the potential correlation between dangerous driving and coercive control.

Asked by:
Mark Garnier (Conservative)

The Department works across Government to tackle violence against women and girls, including with the Ministry of Justice. As part of this work, Lilian Greenwood, then Minister for Local Transport, discussed dangerous driving as a means of coercive control with Alex Davies-Jones MP, then Minister for Victims, in October 2025.

The Government's ‘Freedom from Violence and Abuse: a cross-government strategy’ includes a commitment to work to disqualify violence against women and girls offenders who have used vehicles as part of their offending behaviour or criminal acts, using existing powers. This reflects evidence that vehicles can be used in individual cases as a means of control, intimidation, harassment or abuse.

The Government has further committed to working with National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on a strategy designed to look at opportunities to target violence against women and girls through roads policing. This important work is part of the Roads Policing Innovation Programme, a commitment under the Government's wider Road Safety Strategy.

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