Available information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by my Department, from 2000 to 2004 (latest available), is provided in the following table.
2005 data will be available later this year.
Number of persons 2000 33,600 2001 30,100 2002 30,500 2003 33,300 2004 30,900 1 Disqualifications under section 35 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988. 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. Work is under way to ensure that the magistrates courts case management system being implemented by the Ministry of Justice reports all motoring offences to the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. This will enable more complete figures to be disseminated. 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 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.