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Newly Qualified Drivers

Volume 177: debated on Monday 23 July 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to introduce an identification scheme for newly qualified drivers; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to restrict the engine size of cars driven by drivers within 12 months of passing their driving test; and if he will make a statement.

I refer my hon. Friend to my reply of 27 June to my hon. Friend the Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs), column 211.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of the total number of private motor vehicle drivers were involved in (a) fatal, and (b) non-fatal accidents within 12 months of passing their driving test for each of the last three years.

Information is not collected in the form requested, but research studies show that young and inexperienced drivers have a much higher accident rate than mature drivers.