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Road Safety

Volume 448: debated on Wednesday 12 July 2006

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Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the latest figures are for prosecutions of drivers using mobile phones while driving, broken down by police authority area. (82203)

Mr. Coaker

Available information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform for the year 2004 (latest available) is in the following table. 2005 data will be available early in 2007.

Proceedings at magistrates courts for the offence of use of hand held mobile phone while driving1 by police force area, England and Wales 2004

Number of offences

Police force area

Total proceedings

Avon and Somerset

19

Bedfordshire

5

Cambridgeshire

7

Cheshire

2

Cleveland

4

Cumbria

24

Derbyshire

17

Devon and Cornwall

19

Dorset

2—

Durham

1

Essex

28

Gloucestershire

1

Greater Manchester

73

Hampshire

18

Hertfordshire

6

Humberside

4

Kent

2—

Lancashire

17

Leicestershire

12

Lincolnshire

9

London, City of

7

Merseyside

22

Metropolitan Police

203

Norfolk

20

Northamptonshire

2—

Northumbria

32

North Yorkshire

18

Nottinghamshire

8

South Yorkshire

12

Staffordshire

11

Suffolk

7

Surrey

9

Sussex

1

Thames Valley

24

Warwickshire

7

West Mercia

17

West Midlands

61

West Yorkshire

11

Wiltshire

21

Dyfed Powys

13

Gwent

2—

North Wales

3

South Wales

16

England and Wales

789

1 Offences under the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, Regulations 110 (1), 110 (2) and 110(3). 2 Nil prosecutions. Source: Court Proceedings Database.