Clause 14 - Alcohol ignition interlocks
Road Safety Bill [Lords]
2:30 pm
Stephen Hammond (Shadow Minister, Transport; Wimbledon, Conservative)
The Minister said that to a large extent he shared the analysis of my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford, North. Does he share the analysis, therefore, of my hon. Friend the Member for North Shropshire, that the technology would most properly be used for offenders who have been caught more than once—after their disqualification and as an extra penalty—rather than for first-time offenders, which would let them off their sentence a little bit? Surely we should be reinforcing the message to drink-drivers, and the measure should be an extra, punitive one.