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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the laws relating to traffic offences are effectively enforced.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the laws relating to traffic offences are effectively enforced.
The responsibility for the enforcement of criminal law, including traffic offences, is a matter for the Police who work under Home Office guidance. Decisions on how the Police deploy resources is a matter for the Police and Crime Commissioners and the Chief Constables for each police force.
The detailed statistics on prosecutions and convictions for motoring offences between 2010 and 2017 have been fairly stable. However there has been an increase in Police using education courses under the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) from 467,601 courses in 2010 to 1,445,817 in 2018.
The National Speed Awareness Course impact evaluation, published in 2017, found that participation in the course was more effective at preventing speed reoffending than fines and penalty points over a period of 3 years following the initial offer to attend. The National Speed Awareness Course is now offered by most police forces in England and Wales.
In March 2018, we provided a grant of £370,000 to PACTS (Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety) to run a competition to encourage the development of mobile evidential breath testing instruments which will meet the Home Office type approval requirements. Phase 2 of this competition closes at the end of June 2019.
The DfT has recently invested £100,000 to support the digital capacity of the police to enable them to handle dash and helmet cam evidence in respect of road traffic offences.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of companies issued fines for underpayment of the minimum wage in each of the last five years; what the total value of such fines issued is; and if he will make a statement.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of companies issued fines for underpayment of the minimum wage in each of the last five years; what the total value of such fines issued is; and if he will make a statement.
The Government is committed to increasing compliance with minimum wage legislation and effective enforcement of it. Everyone who is entitled to the minimum wage should receive it.
Employers who pay workers less than the minimum wage not only have to pay back arrears of wages at current minimum wage rates but also face financial penalties of up to £20,000 per underpaid worker. A further increase in penalties will come into force in April 2016 and will increase the penalty percentage from 100% to 200% of the underpayments owed to each worker, up to the existing maximum.
I refer the honourable member to the answers provided at UIN 18487 and UIN 205613 for the information on penalties charged on employers.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers his Department has to limit the availability of anti-Semitic information on the internet.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers his Department has to limit the availability of anti-Semitic information on the internet.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what efforts are being made to ensure that children under the age of 16 do not (a) buy and (b) carry knives. - (Holding answer 27 January 2004).
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what efforts are being made to ensure that children under the age of 16 do not (a) buy and (b) carry knives. - (Holding answer 27 January 2004).
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what action can be taken against companies that do not enforce an equal pay policy. - Inc ref to Equal Pay Act 1970.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what action can be taken against companies that do not enforce an equal pay policy. - Inc ref to Equal Pay Act 1970.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what regulations are in place to control vehicle emissions; and what measures there are to enforce them.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, what regulations are in place to control vehicle emissions; and what measures there are to enforce them.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what measures he is taking to ensure that all public buildings and facilities comply with the standards set out in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what measures he is taking to ensure that all public buildings and facilities comply with the standards set out in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures will be taken to ensure that employers who contravene the national minimum wage will face a high risk of prosecution. - (Holding answer 16 March 1999).
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what measures will be taken to ensure that employers who contravene the national minimum wage will face a high risk of prosecution. - (Holding answer 16 March 1999).
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what measures his Department is taking to improve enforcement of speed limits and what representations he has received in favour of a reduction in speed limits.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what measures his Department is taking to improve enforcement of speed limits and what representations he has received in favour of a reduction in speed limits.
If he will make it his policy that the enforcement of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 will be kept under review.
If he will make it his policy that the enforcement of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 will be kept under review.