Cycling: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were fined for carrying more than one person on a bicycle not constructed or adapted for that purpose in each of the last 10 years. (154857)

I have been asked to reply.

The information requested, for the years 1996 to 2005, is contained in the following table.

*Persons*¹ *fined for offences of carrying more than one person on a bicycle, England and Wales, 1996 to 2005*
Offence	Statute	Year	Number of persons fined
Carrying more than one person on a bicycle not constructed or adapted to carry more than one person	Road Traffic Act 1 988, s.24	1996	7
		1997	10
		1998	7
		1999	1
		2000	6
		2001	2
		2002	4
		2003	3
		2004	4
		2005	5
¹ Principal offence basis. Source: RDS-NOMS, Ministry of Justice

Volume 463: debated on Wednesday 12 September 2007