To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total amount raised through the payment of fixed penalties for speeding in each of the last five financial years, for each police force in Scotland; and if there has been any change of policy by the police forces regarding the collection of speeding fines during the past five years. [1284]
Police fixed penalties for speeding were only introduced in April 1993 and have been set at £40 since then. The following table gives the information held centrally on the number of police conditional offers of fixed penalties for speeding issued in each of the last three financial years, for each police force in Scotland. The fixed penalties are collected by the Clerk of the District Court with jurisdiction over locus of the offence. It is not possible from information held centrally to give the total amounts raised from fixed penalties for speeding in each police force area for the period covered in the table.
| Number of police conditional offers issued under section 75(3) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 in relation to speeding offences, 1993–94 to 1995–96 | |||
| Police Force | Offers issued | ||
| 1993–94 | 1994–95 | 1995–96 | |
| Central | 3,248 | 3,913 | 3,716 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3,032 | 2,931 | 4,478 |
| Fife | 3,576 | 3,686 | 3,111 |
| Grampian | 5,528 | 7,275 | 6,892 |
| Lothian and Borders | 8,628 | 11,298 | 10,873 |
| Northern | 2,266 | 2,749 | 3,479 |
| Strathclyde | 36,675 | 30,247 | 27,651 |
| Tayside | 6,071 | 5,730 | 5,210 |
| Scotland | 69,024 | 67,829 | 65,410 |