To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fixed penalty notices have been issued under section 72 of the Highways Act 1835, in each year since 1 August 1999, broken down by (a) police and (b) local authority area. [108610]
The regular collection of data on fixed penalties for motoring offences does not identify separately offences peculiar to driving a motor vehicle on a footpath (section 72 of the Highways Act 1835), from other motoring offences of neglect of pedestrian rights. Fixed penalty data are not collected centrally on the number of pedal cyclists driving on a footpath (also under section 72 of the Highways Act 1835). Information by local authority is not collected centrally.The table shows information collected as part of a special exercise conducted in 2001 on the number of fixed penalties issued by police force area, under section 72 of the Highways Act 1835, in 1999 and 2000 only.
| Fixed penalty offences—number of substantive tickets issued,England and Wales, August to December 1999 and January toDecember 2000 for cycling and driving on the footpath(pavement) offences under section 72 of the Highways Act 1835by police force area | ||||
| Cycling on thefootpath (pavement) | Driving on thefootpath (pavement) | |||
| Police force area | 1999 | 2000 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Avon and Somerset | 19 | 34 | 16 | 42 |
| Bedfordshire | — | — | — | — |
| Cambridgeshire | 1— | 1— | 1— | 1— |
| Cheshire | 6 | 14 | 2 | 6 |
| Cleveland | 5 | 5 | — | — |
| Cumbria | 12 | 20 | 4 | 24 |
| Derbyshire | 3 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 28 | 34 | 4 | 43 |
| Dorset | 7 | 17 | 7 | 1 |
| Durham | 7 | 11 | 1 | 1 |
| Essex | 76 | 55 | 5 | 7 |
| Gloucestershire | 25 | 47 | 6 | 4 |
| Greater Manchester | 38 | 78 | 2— | 2— |
| Hampshire | 52 | 52 | — | 4 |
| Hertfordshire | 11 | 6 | 3 | 13 |
| Humberside | 19 | 64 | 1 | 14 |
| Kent | 48 | 44 | 39 | 92 |
| Lancashire | 8 | 20 | 41 | 11 |
| Leicestershire | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| Lincolnshire | 15 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| London, City of | 10 | 3 | 10 | — |
| Merseyside | 18 | 20 | 5 | 7 |
| Metropolitan Police | 29 | 66 | 8 | 22 |
| Norfolk | 38 | 14 | 31 | 3 |
| Northamptonshire | 2 | 7 | — | — |
| Northumbria | 21 | 27 | 9 | 58 |
| North Yorkshire | 18 | 16 | 53 | 191 |
| Nottinghamshire | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| South Yorkshire | 11 | 34 | 61 | 111 |
| Staffordshire | 33 | 4 | 3— | 5 |
| Suffolk | 53 | 30 | — | — |
| Surrey | 13 | 1 | 4 | 16 |
| Sussex | 15 | 9 | — | — |
| Thames Valley | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| Warwickshire | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| West Mercia | 36 | 17 | 5 | 6 |
| West Midlands | 4 | 9 | 1 | 17 |
| West Yorkshire | 4— | 2 | 42 | — |
| Wiltshire | 6 | 23 | 1 | 7 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 7 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Gwent | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| North Wales | 1— | 51 | 34 | 51 |
| South Wales | 4 | 6 | 38 | 60 |
| Total (42 forces) | 665 | 821 | 377 | 788 |
1 Not available.
2 Included within cycling on the footway (pavement).
3 October to December 1999 only.
4 November and December 1999 only.
5 October to December 2000 only.