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Road Safety Bill [HL]

My Lords, at an earlier stage, when we discussed penalty points for speeding, the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, made the point that the police or whoever issued the speeding fine, not the court, offered the offender the choice of retraining in lieu of penalty points. I presume from what the noble Lord said at that stage that the option applied only now and therefore someone who committed their first offence when the option was not available, but who wanted to take up the option now—on their second offence, for example—would have ““missed the bus””. Are those training courses the same type as those about which the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, talked earlier, or is there a substantial difference? He told us that the uptake by those offered a course instead of penalty points was very high.