Driving under Influence: Sentencing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of drug driving offences were given the maximum sentence in each of the last five years.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on drug driving offence convictions. This is available in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.
The number of convictions and the type of sentence related to drug driving offences can be accessed by navigating to the ‘Sentence Outcomes’ tab, using the sentencing outcome filter and filtering the “HO offence code” drop down for:
- 00413 - Cause death by driving without due care / consideration while over prescribed limit - specified controlled drug (MOT)
- 80310 - Driving or attempting to drive a motor vehicle whilst unfit through drink or drugs (impairment) - drugs (MOT)
- 80312 - Being in charge of a mechanically propelled vehicle whilst unfit to drive through drink or drugs (impairment) - drugs (MOT)
- 80313 - Drive a motor vehicle with the proportion of specified controlled drug above specified limit (MOT)
- 80314 – Aid/abet driving of a motor vehicle with the proportion of specified controlled drug above specified limit (MOT)
- 80315 - In charge of a motor vehicle with the proportion of specified controlled drug above specified limit (MOT)
- 80316 - Attempt to drive a motor vehicle with the proportion of specified controlled drug above specified limit (MOT)
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