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MP voices car insurance disc proposal
An MP has presented a ten-minute rule bill to Parliament proposing that all drivers be required to display an insurance disc alongside the compulsory tax disc on their car windscreens.
Although the ten-minute bill is unlikely to go through, Labour MP Andy Burnham believes that it could become the first step in a legislative process that would help protect Britain's roads from the hazards of uninsured drivers.
An estimated one and a quarter million people drive without a valid licence, including both men's and women's car insurance, and Mr Burnham told BBC Radio Four's 'You and Yours' programme that the scheme would change the current situation in which drivers are under very little pressure to ensure they have valid insurance policies.
"At the moment there are cars driving around every town, city and village of Britain; anonymous cars that aren't insured, that have the potential to wreck lives and yet we've no means of knowing who they are," he said.
"I think this disc would give the public an easy means of identifying where the problem is."
Alan Leaman from the Association of British Insurers told the same programme that the disc was "a good idea" but that discs could only insure cars, not drivers, and so could not entirely eliminate the problem.
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