The deputy leader of the Labour party was fined £400 and banned from driving for four weeks after being caught caught speeding on the M4 near Swindon.
This comes after being fined £350 and ordered to pay £75 costs back in 2010 after being convicted of driving without due care and attention. Harman's car was allegedly involved in a collision with a parked car while using her mobile phone, but she escaped a charge of driving while using a mobile phone.
It turns out that the minister is no stranger to the unwelcome sight of a fixed penalty notice dropping onto the doormat - she already had six penalty points on her licence after twice being caught speeding and had actually been banned from driving in 2003.
Former Childrens Minister and prior to that, chair of the Campaign For Civil Liberties, Harriet Harmann, collaborated with the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and another Paedophile Activist Groups in a campaign to decriminalise and legalise child pornography.
Harriet Harman, whose previous roles include Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party & Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Shadow Deputy Prime Minister called on ministers to make sexually explicit photographs or films of children legal unless there was evidence that the subject had been harmed. At the time she made the official submission, she was a senior figure in a civil liberties organisation that wanted the age of consent to be lowered to 14 and for incest to be decriminalised. It also defended self-confessed paedophiles in the press and allowed them to attend its meetings.
A piece by the Independent regarding the Daily Mails Investigation.
Harriet Harman has expressed regret that a civil rights organisation she used to work for had links with a prominent pro-paedophile campaign group in the 1970s.
The Labour deputy leader has vigorously defended her actions as the legal officer of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), which granted affiliate status to the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) in 1975, before Ms Harman had joined.
Ms Harman has accused the Daily Mail of running a "Politically-Motivated Smear Campaign" after it ran a series of stories, which called for Ms Harman, her MP husband Jack Dromey and former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt to explain their connections to the PIE while holding key roles in the NCCL.
Breaking her silence on Monday, Ms Harman told BBC Two's Newsnight programme that she stood by her actions "all the way through" her time at the NCCL when PIE was "challenged" and "pushed aside".
She repeatedly sidestepped questions over whether it had been a mistake to allow PIE to be affiliated to the NCCL, saying that anybody could join "simply by paying a fee".
In a fresh statement on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Ms Harman said "She regrets the existence of PIE and she regrets their involvement with NCCL before she joined, although it was immaterial to her work. She stands by the statement from yesterday and she is certainly not going to apologise to the Daily Mail."
In her Newsnight interview, Ms Harman repeatedly declined to accept that it had been a mistake for any link to have been allowed between the NCCL and PIE. "On the basis that it has created, somehow, a sense that NCCL's work was therefore tainted by them, yes, obviously that is a very unfortunate inference to happen." she said."It is not the case that my work when I was at NCCL was influenced by PIE, was apologising for paedophilia, or colluding with paedophilia - that is an unfair inference and it's a smear."
Asked why she would not say it had been wrong, she told the programme "Because they were challenged and they were pushed aside from their views having any influence on NCCL."
The senior Labour politician said the Daily Mail was "aggressively trying to completely reshape the facts of a situation 30 years ago. It is ironic that they are accusing me of supporting indecency in relation to children when they themselves are not above producing photographs of very young girls, titivating photographs, in bikinis." she said. "I stand by what I was doing at NCCL and I stand by what I have done all the way through."
She added as an attempt at deflection "I think if there is anybody who has over the years supported indecency it is much more the Daily Mail than it is me and that's the frank truth of it."
The newspaper has accused Ms Harman and Mr Dromey of issuing statements "full of pedantry and obfuscation", which failed to answer central allegations and denied others it had not made.
"For 10 weeks now the Mail has repeatedly asked three leading Labour figures to answer questions about the involvement of the NCCL, a body in which they played leading roles, with a vile paedophile group whose actions are currently being investigated by the police." a spokesman said in a statement issued before Tuesday's expression of regret.
"More pertinently they have failed to utter a word of contrition or sorrow about the NCCL's closeness to the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange, an organisation that validated the activities of a monster like Jimmy Saville. Nor do they utter a word of apology to the victims of PIE."