Driving: Disqualification
Commons · Question 36455 · Tabled 7 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by James Wild
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending legislation so that driving disqualification periods commence at the end of any custodial sentence imposed.
Answer
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin, 13 Mar 2025
Courts can impose a driving disqualification for any offence committed after 01 January 1998.Driving bans generally start from the day they are imposed at sentencing. This is because, if the offender’s ban was set to commence at the usual point of release...