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date	12/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving under Influence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the number of people who are (a) killed and (b) injured by motorists who are over the legal limit of alcohol.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	174057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>Tackling drink driving is a priority for the Government and important steps have already been taken to tighten drink driving legislation. Since 2015, high risk offenders such as repeat drink drivers have to provide medical proof that they are not alcohol dependent before getting their licence back; the right to a blood test was also removed for drivers who narrowly fail a breathalyser test, denying those people the chance to sober up while waiting for the test to be taken; and a £350,000 innovation competition to provide police forces with the next generation of mobile breathalyser equipment has recently completed and bids are under review.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/10/2018 14:47:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

927770

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving under Influence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of bringing drink-driving limits in England and Wales in line with those in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	155932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no current plans to lower the drink drive limit and considers rigorous enforcement and serious penalties for drink drivers to be effective deterrents.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/06/2018 16:10:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

810512

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving under Influence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve enforcement against drink-driving in light of recent report by the Institute of Alcohol Studies Running on empty, drink-driving law enforcement in England published on 8 December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	120857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the report from the Institute of Alcohol Studies. The Latest Department for Transport figures show that fewer people died on British roads in 2015 as a result of drink driving than in any year since records began. Chief Constables and locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners have the powers they need to deploy their resources in response to local priorities.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/01/2018 15:08:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner