Driving Offences (Drunkenness)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 July 1959.

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Photo of Mr William Hannan Mr William Hannan , Glasgow Maryhill 12:00, 28 July 1959

Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the description given to this type of offence by a prominent sheriff when he described it as a crime is probably correct? Does not the small number of cases in which the maximum penalty has been imposed indicate the need, not for heavier penalties, but for the greater use of the existing penalties? Can the right hon. Gentleman do something about it?