Greg Mulholland – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made by his Department’s Justice for Vulnerable Road Users Working Group.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Justice for Vulnerable Road Users group is a sub-group of the Cycling Stakeholder Forum. It includes representatives from the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Metropolitan Police, Crown Prosecution Service, Sentencing Council, CTC, British Cycling and RoadPeace. The next meeting is scheduled for later this month.

The remit of the group is set out in a terms of reference agreed by the membership. The group has recently looked into whether it would be possible to link data to see how many fatal road traffic accidents have resulted into convictions and this will most likely be discussed at the forthcoming meeting. Many of the other concerns of the Group should be covered in the forthcoming Ministry of Justice Review of Motoring Offences.