Part of Road Safety Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:00 pm on 20 January 2005.
Christopher Chope
Conservative, Christchurch
5:00,
20 January 2005
The Minister said that there would not be any self-financing through the penalties imposed, but one of his officials said yesterday at the meeting that there was a business case—I think that he said that it was before the Treasury at the moment—that would achieve just that: a system whereby the proceeds of the penalties imposed would be used to fund an expansion of VOSA activity. Can the Minister comment further on that?
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