I am grateful to the Minister for his thoroughness and his generosity in giving way, but he has slightly missed my point, which was not about previous convictions, but cases where someone is breathalysed, given a blood test and shown to be over the drink-driving limit and therefore to have broken that law. In such cases, people are not always also drug-tested, even if drugs are suspected, and that is quite wrong. If someone is over the limit and also under the influence of drugs, those two things make the act more reckless and more criminal, and they should have a higher sentence.
Dangerous Driving
Proceeding contribution from
Greg Mulholland
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 27 January 2014.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Dangerous Driving.
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