Bike Insurance

Plans outlined by the government to introduce continuous enforcement of bike insurance are short-sighted and fraught with problems, an organisation has claimed.

Ministers recently put together a consultation on the proposals for the continuous insurance enforcement of statutory motor insurance, which will include the use of the motor insurance database on which legislation will be based.

The British Motorcyclists Federation (BMF) has said that it has little confidence in how accurate the database would be and claims that it fails to consider the various ways in which bikers buy and use bike insurance - especially those with more than one machine.

Chris Hodder, the BMF's government relations executive, said: "Given the inaccuracy of the information already on the database, we suspect that a great deal of time and effort will be wasted enforcing the unnecessary."

He went on to say that the organisation would like to see enforcement carried out through road policing rather than through a "blind" system.

Earlier this month, the Institute of Advanced Motoring outlined its support for the plans but called for the database to be reliable so as to avoid mistakes.

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