Schedule 7 - Minor and consequential amendments
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]
3:30 pm
Mr Paul Goggins (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Wythenshawe and Sale East, Labour)
I must ask for your forbearance, Mr. Benton, and that of the Committee as I go into the amendments.
The amendments add a surcharge to criminal convictions in the courts, to fixed penalty notices for road traffic offences and to penalty notices for disorder. The proposal to add a surcharge to criminal convictions and fixed penalty notices was one a number of measures set out in the consultation paper ''Compensation and Support for Victims of Crime'', which was issued on 12 January. There was overwhelming support for more and better services for victims of crime, although opinion was divided on the introduction of the surcharge. The majority of objections were to the addition of the surcharge to fixed penalty notices for speeding. The amendments will add the surcharge only when a driver seriously or persistently speeds and/or seriously or persistently commits other endorsable motoring offences that attract fixed penalty notices.