Schedule 2 - Endorsement: unlicensed and foreign drivers
Road Safety Bill [Lords]
10:00 am
Stephen Ladyman (Minister of State, Department for Transport; South Thanet, Labour)
The convictions are expunged. I asked that very question of my colleagues in the DVLA yesterday, with all the cynicism of a former computer systems designer who knows how lazy software and database designers are, and who knows their willingness to leave information on the record just in case it might be needed in future. I checked that specific point and was assured that the convictions are deleted. They are not available to anybody after they are spent.