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Penalties For Dangerous Driving

EDM number 159 in 1999-00, proposed by Tim Loughton on 07/12/1999.

That this House notes with concern that the killer of PC Jeff Tooley, who was run down by a driver who failed to stop, whilst on active duty in Shoreham, West Sussex, has been sentenced to a term of just seven years imprisonment, and will be eligible for parole in three years; further notes that the judge in the case highlighted the inconsistencies in the law when passing sentence when he stated that 'Parliament has decided that the maximum penalty for death by dangerous driving is 10 years, whereas the maximum penalty for burglary is 14 years'; agrees with the comments by the judge that 'this might strike the public as an odd approach to the value placed on human life'; and calls on the Government urgently to review the level of penalties for causing death by dangerous driving with a view to making life sentences available for the worst offences.

This motion has been signed by a total of 61 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Tim Loughton07/12/1999East Worthing & ShorehamConservativeProposed
Nicholas Soames07/12/1999Mid SussexConservativeSigned
Norman Baker07/12/1999LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Laura Moffatt07/12/1999CrawleyLabourSigned
Howard Flight07/12/1999Arundel & South DownsConservativeSigned
Peter Bottomley08/12/1999Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Paul Tyler08/12/1999North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Desmond Swayne08/12/1999New Forest WestConservativeSigned
Harry Barnes08/12/1999North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Jane Griffiths08/12/1999Reading EastLabourSigned
James Gray08/12/1999North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Norman Godman08/12/1999Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Paul Flynn08/12/1999Newport WestLabourSigned
Huw Edwards08/12/1999MonmouthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn08/12/1999Islington NorthLabourSigned
Vincent Cable08/12/1999TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Ashok Kumar08/12/1999Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Lynne Jones08/12/1999Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Bob Russell08/12/1999ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George08/12/1999St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
David Lepper09/12/1999Brighton, PavilionLabour Co-operativeSigned
Joan Walley09/12/1999Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Ronnie Fearn09/12/1999SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Davidson09/12/1999Glasgow, PollokLabour Co-operativeSigned
Kevin McNamara09/12/1999Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Syd Rapson09/12/1999Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington13/12/1999Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Nigel Jones14/12/1999CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew14/12/1999StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Derek Wyatt14/12/1999Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Bob Laxton15/12/1999Derby NorthLabourSigned
Russell Brown15/12/1999DumfriesLabourSigned
Gillian Shephard16/12/1999South West NorfolkConservativeSigned
Michael Clark16/12/1999RayleighConservativeSigned
Jackie Ballard16/12/1999TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Gerry Steinberg16/12/1999Durham, City ofLabourSigned
John Wilkinson16/12/1999Ruislip - NorthwoodConservativeSigned
Jonathan Sayeed20/12/1999Mid BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Gerald Howarth20/12/1999AldershotConservativeSigned
Geoffrey Johnson Smith20/12/1999WealdenConservativeSigned
Andrew Love20/12/1999EdmontonLabour Co-operativeSigned
David Madel20/12/1999South West BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Richard Body20/12/1999Boston & SkegnessConservativeSigned
Teddy Taylor20/12/1999Rochford & Southend EastConservativeSigned
Ann Winterton20/12/1999CongletonConservativeSigned
John Townend21/12/1999East YorkshireConservativeSigned
John Horam21/12/1999OrpingtonConservativeSigned
David Prior10/01/2000North NorfolkConservativeSigned
John McDonnell10/01/2000Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Teresa Gorman10/01/2000BillericayConservativeSigned
Eric Illsley12/01/2000Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Win Griffiths13/01/2000BridgendLabourSigned
Robert Jackson19/01/2000WantageConservativeSigned
John Gunnell25/01/2000Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Tony McWalter27/01/2000Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Kelvin Hopkins02/02/2000Luton NorthLabourSigned
Nigel Griffiths03/02/2000Edinburgh SouthLabourSigned
Paul Truswell10/02/2000PudseyLabourSigned
Mohammad Sarwar11/02/2000Glasgow, GovanLabourSigned
Diane Abbott14/02/2000Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
John RandallUnknownWithdrawn

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