Information taken from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform on the total amount of motoring fines ordered to be paid broken down by Government office region in England and Wales from 2000 to 2004 (latest available) is given in the following table. The figures relate only to fines imposed by the courts. Data are not available at local authority area level.
2005 data will be available early in 2007.
£ million Government office region 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 North East 4.5 4.3 4.0 3.9 4.2 North West 20.1 15.9 15.4 17.7 18.0 Yorkshire and the Humber 10.3 9.1 8.1 10.3 12.7 East Midlands 10.3 9.6 9.9 13.1 14.4 West Midlands 13.5 11.4 13.1 15.1 16.7 East 10.6 9.5 10.2 11.2 12.0 London 12.5 11.5 11.9 13.9 15.7 South East 16.3 14.9 15.4 16.8 17.1 South West 11 10.4 11.1 13.2 13.6 Wales 7.2 6.1 6.9 7.8 7.8 Total England and Wales 116.3 102.5 106.0 123.1 132.2 Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.