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Driving Licences: Young People

Asked by Manuela PerteghellaLiberal DemocratDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 25 February 2025UIN 31102

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of graduated driving licences on levels of deaths of young drivers.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

Whilst we are not considering Graduated Driving Licences, the Government treats road safety with the utmost seriousness, and we are committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads. We absolutely recognise that young people are disproportionately victims of tragic incidents on our roads, and we are considering measures and their potential impacts to tackle the root causes of this without unfairly penalising young drivers.

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