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Road Safety (Financial Penalty Deposit) (Appropriate Amount) Order 2009

I shall touch on all the points made and I hope to get some sympathy for this. We have a pretty unsatisfactory situation; this is a good first step compared with where we are; and we intend to learn. The £300 is an average and it may well suffer from the defects pointed out by noble Lords. The commitment to a post-implementation review will, we hope, address that. We are getting there; we are starting to do something; and starting to learn. We have the problem of what to do about multiple offences by foreign drivers. These measures do not, as I understand them—I shall write to noble Lords on this—increase the powers to address multiple offences. The effect of the relevant provisions of the Road Safety Act is to enable a record of those penalty points to be created so that we can start to build up a picture of multiple offences by foreign drivers. We will use that to enable further consideration of the development of this policy in the future. We are alive to the multiple offence point, but I accept that these instruments do not address the point directly.