Department for Transport written question – answered at on 14 March 2017.
Rebecca Long-Bailey
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of current penalties for drivers using mobile telephones.
Andrew Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The current increased penalties for drivers using mobile phones only came into effect on 1 March 2017. The Department will initiate work to allow for an assessment of the effectiveness of the penalties later this year.
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