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I just had a thought.
I am wondering how much the loss of income/jobs/careers due to disqualification is costing the taxpayer each year.
With average unemployment pay at £150 per person per week, including family income benefit, loss of the National Insurance contributions, loss of PAYE tax, loss of fuel duty those people would have paid, etc, etc.
Can anyone do this sum?

Add to that the time 'wasted' campaigning for and against speed cameras.

I'd say may be 1% of those affected spend 10-20% of the time. So an avg. salary of say 30K and 15M people = £90M

Just worked out my own labour bill to be £328K at list price for the last 5 years.

I doubt that many people end up losing their job due to disqualification. The vast majority of the time people who have 9 points and get caught again will either points-share with their spouse to get around it, or will plead extreme hardship to the judge to avoid a ban.

Yes, there was a report a few months ago (discussed somewhere on here) that the number of disqualifications was far less than expected. I wonder why that is

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