| Heading: |
Cycling: Road Traffic Offences |
| Question ID: |
1815838 |
| UIN: |
62220 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4778 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Greg Smith
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| Asking Member handle: |
gregsmith_uk
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@gregsmith_uk
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to help increase prosecutions of cyclists who jump red traffic lights. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4943 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Simon Lightwood
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| Answering Member handle: |
simonlightwood
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@simonlightwood
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| Answer text: |
Enforcement of traffic offences of this sort is a matter for the police. Those who cycle have a duty, like all road users, to behave in a safe and responsible manner and to follow the rules set out in The Highway Code. It is already an offence for cyclist... |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |