New Clause 4 - Causing death or serious injury by negligent driving
Road Safety Bill
11:00 am
Mr Christopher Chope (Shadow Minister, Environment and Transport; Christchurch, Conservative)
We live in interesting times, Mr. Pike. I suggested that we should have a differential penalty for careless driving that related to the consequences of that driving, and that we might debate that alongside new clause 4. I now understand exactly why the Government did not want that to happen—although, in my naivety and ignorance, I did not want it to happen either. They knew jolly well that they had cooked up an announcement, to be made at a time when it would be too late for Members of the Committee to table new clauses, and to debate and consider that announcement. That has come forward today—