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Driving Offences: Speed Limits

Volume 464: debated on Thursday 11 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many drivers were given endorsements for speeding offences in the last five years for which data are available. (156529)

Available information taken from the fixed penalty notices collection and the Court Proceedings Database held by my Department, from 2000 to 2004 (latest available), is provided in the following tables.

2005 data will be available later this year.

Table A: Fixed penalty notices issued1, for speeding offences2, 2000 to 2004: England and Wales

Thousand

Fixed penalty notices issued

2000

989

2001

1,233

2002

1,505

2003

2,078

2004

1,924

1 Endorsements on driving licences given out by the police (fixed penalty notices).

2 Including speeding offences detected by camera.

Table B: Total endorsements1 without disqualifications, on findings of guilt, imposed at all courts for speeding offences2, 2000 to 2004: England and Wales

Number of offences (Thousand)

Total findings of guilt

Endorsements without disqualification

2000

141

126

2001

136

116

2002

125

106

2003

140

119

2004

143

126

1 Excludes penalty points given under section 35 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (totting up system).

2 Including speeding offences detected by camera.

Notes:

1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete.

2. 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 police forces and the courts. 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.