Richard Burden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2014-04-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of speed awareness courses; and what information her Department collects on speeding and driving offences committed by drivers who have undertaken such a course.

Karen Bradley

The number of drivers that opted for a National Driver Offender Retraining
Scheme (NDORS) speed awareness course rather than accept penalty points on
their driving licence in 2010 is 447,833, in 2011 is 772,180, 2012 is 926,155 and in
2013 is 953,464. These reflect the latest updated figures.
The offer of a speed awareness course is at the discretion of the police. To be
deemed eligible there must be no excessive speed or other offences committed at
the same time. Information on previous motoring convictions is not taken into
account.
The Department for Transport and the police are in advanced stages of
commissioning a long term study to assess the effectiveness of speed awareness
courses.