Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 14 September 2020.
Rachael Maskell
Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has taken recent steps to review sentencing policy for dangerous driving.
Chris Philp
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
The government has committed to increase the maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs to life imprisonment and create a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving. We will legislate as soon as possible.
Yes1 person thinks so
No3 people think not
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