Minister fined for using phone while driving
PA
Published: 02 November 2007
A Home Office minister today pleaded guilty to using a mobile phone while driving.
Immigration minister Liam Byrne told Sutton Coldfield magistrates' court in a letter that he was taking an important call on a deportation matter at the time of the offence.
Mr Byrne, 37, the Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill and a former police minister, was fined £100 with £35 costs and a £15 victim surcharge. He was also given three points on his licence.
"The Home Office is responsible for the law and its ministers should be well aware of it and set the correct example".
