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Fixed Penalties

Volume 468: debated on Monday 26 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many fixed penalty notices were unpaid after (a) 28 days, (b) three months and (c) six months in (i) England, (ii) London and (iii) each London borough in each year since 1997. (166935)

Available information from 1997-2004 (latest available) is provided in the following tables. 2005 data will be available next year.

The information collected by my Department identifies the number of motoring offences fixed penalty notices issued by result at police force area level. Data are collected on the disposal (i.e. paid, fine registration certificate issued etc.). However because of the time taken for the procedures for payment to be enforced the data are collected approximately nine months later than the period of issue and published in the following year’s annual volume covering motoring offences.

Motoring offences fixed penalty notices data are submitted to my Department on a calendar year basis from police forces. The data do not contain a month by month breakdown.

Table A: Motoring offences fixed penalty notices issued by result1 London2,1997-2004

Number of offences

Result

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

Penalty paid within 28 days

189,860

176,343

145,939

151,845

134,464

143,188

210,542

228,679

Payment accepted after 28 days

85,176

82,662

62,988

63,164

57,689

48,973

74,609

67,222

No further action taken

20,869

19,601

32,122

30,491

6,739

7,238

8,486

5,744

Fine Registration Certificate issued3

71,646

62,163

44,317

52,339

67,020

60,381

86,264

68,336

Referred for court proceedings

3,528

3,504

4,829

2,319

2,449

2,290

3,146

2,451

1 Endorsable and non-endorsable notices combined.

2 Metropolitan and City of London police forces combined.

3 Includes outcomes not finalised.

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 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.

Source:

Annual volume ‘Offences relating to motor vehicles, England and Wales, Supplementary tables’—Table 21(a)

Table B: Motoring offences fixed penalty notices issued by result1 England, 1997-2004

Number of offences

Result

1997

1998

19992

20002

20012

2002

2003

2004

Penalty paid within 28 days

1,708,525

1,791,766

1,641,894

1,606,430

1,583,908

1,718,020

2,204,334

2,189,052

Payment accepted after 28 days

767,999

722,512

625,183

570,804

558,627

479,477

612,224

579,004

No further action taken

244,179

214,360

211,397

181,438

120,805

92,575

79,306

77,999

Fine Registration Certificate issued3

464,456

439,854

377,308

341,459

341,615

289,688

313,642

273,584

Referred for court proceedings

30,044

28,014

18,994

14,253

13,796

11,756

10,646

11,536

1 Endorsable and non-endorsable notices combined.

2 Revised following amendments received from Essex police force area.

3 Includes outcomes not finalised.

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 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.

Source:

Annual volume ‘Offences relating to motor vehicles, England and Wales, Supplementary tables’—Table 21(a)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many penalty notices for disorder were issued in (a) England, (b) London and (c) each London borough in each year since 1997; (166937)

(2) how many people were issued with fixed penalty notices as a result of evidence from (a) closed circuit television (CCTV) on buses in London in each year since 1997 and (b) the live CCTV pilot on buses in London.

Information on the number of penalty notices for disorder issued in England and London for 2004 and 2005 are provided in the table. Data on the number of PNDs issued by London borough are not collected by my department. The Penalty Notice for Disorder (PND) Scheme was rolled out to all police forces in England and Wales in 2004 under the provisions of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001.

Information on the type of evidence used to issue a PND is not reported to my department.

Number of penalty notices for disorder issued in England and London 2004 and 20051

Police force area

Number issued

London, City of

2004

60

2005

219

Metropolitan

2004

12,758

2005

18,047

England

2004

61,260

2005

138,262

1 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. 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.