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<p>Driving offences can have very serious and sometimes devastating consequences for
victims and their families. The Government is changing the law to increase maximum
sentences for disqualified drivers who cause deaths and serious injuries and to make
sure driving disqualifications continue after an offender leaves prison.</p><p> </p><p>The
Ministry of Justice Court Proceeding Database holds information on offences provided
by the statute under which proceedings are brought but not all the specific circumstances
of each case. Details on disqualification from driving are not available from the
information provided centrally to the Ministry of Justice. This detailed information
is not reported due to their size and complexity and as such, it can only be obtained
at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice’s extract of the Police
National Computer (PNC), which MoJ uses to publish official statistics on offenders’
criminal histories, only holds information on those offenders who were cautioned or
convicted for recordable offences in England and Wales.</p><p>To get information on
subsequent convictions whilst disqualified from driving would require a lengthy, manual
data matching process between these two data sources which have no unique or common
identifier for the offenders, which due to its size and complexity will incur disproportionate
cost.</p><p> </p>
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