asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give such information as is readily available with regard to the number of fixed penalty tickets issued to foreign driving offenders and the proportion and number that remain unpaid.

It is not possible to identify those fixed penalty notices issued to or paid by foreign drivers. The only information available is that, out of 2,562,123 fixed penalty notices issued in England and Wales in 1972, there were 142,084 cases in which payment could not be enforced because the driver was a visitor from abroad who had left the United Kingdom before inquiries could be completed.