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  • Autumn Budget 2024 – IAM RoadSmart reaction

    Autumn Budget 2024 – IAM RoadSmart reaction


    IAM RoadSmart Reacts to Autumn Budget 2024: Highlights Fuel Duty Freeze

    Announcements:

    Fuel duty (frozen)

    IAM RoadSmart Policy and Public Affairs Manager William Porter said: “We welcome the Chancellor’s decision to maintain the fuel duty cut, at least for now. Motorists have endured a torrid few years of high prices at the pumps and this decision will give them a much

  • IAM RoadSmart urges the Chancellor to take radical steps to save lives on the roads and boost the public purse in Autumn budget

    IAM RoadSmart urges the Chancellor to take radical steps to save lives on the roads and boost the public purse in Autumn budget

    The UK’s leading road safety charity, IAM RoadSmart, is calling on the Chancellor to take steps to both saves lives and reduce the impact of road traffic collisions in her Autumn Budget. By incentivising the take-up of additional road safety courses through the tax system, it will also help save motorists money as the UK emerges from a cost-of-living crisis.
    With the cost of insurance hitting r

  • REACTION: IAM RoadSmart urges new government to prioritise drivers.

    REACTION: IAM RoadSmart urges new government to prioritise drivers.

    IAM RoadSmart Policy and Standards Director Nicholas Lyes said: “IAM RoadSmart welcomes the new government and ministers to their positions. Doubtless to say, there are plenty of issues that need to be addressed: Motorists are dealing with pothole-plagued roads, expensive pump prices, soaring insurance premiums, and worse, progress on reducing serious and fatal road collisions has stalled for many

  • Soaring motor premiums fuelling spike in uninsured younger drivers

    Soaring motor premiums fuelling spike in uninsured younger drivers

    PRESS RELEASE: 00:01, 17th May 2024
    Drivers aged 17-20 with new IN10 endorsements increases by almost over a quarter in just 12 months as premiums jump by 25% between 2022 to 2023* IAM RoadSmart launches new campaign to bring costs down
    The number of young motorists aged 17-20 punished for driving without insurance has increased by more than a quarter (28%) between 20

  • IAM RoadSmart stresses cost of motoring pressures and potholes ahead of Chancellor's Budget

    IAM RoadSmart stresses cost of motoring pressures and potholes ahead of Chancellor's Budget

    Ahead of the Spring Budget, IAM RoadSmart issues a statement calling on the Chancellor to consider motoring costs and the state of the roads when he delivers his speech to Parliament:
    IAM RoadSmart Director of Policy and Standards Nicholas Lyes: “Motorists continue to feel financially strained with persistently high fuel prices at forecourts and so it will be difficult for the Chancellor to rei