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Speed Limits: Fines

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how much revenue has been raised by (a) Lancashire county council, (b) Ribble Valley borough council, (c) Preston city council, (d) Blackburn with Darwen borough council, (e) South Ribble borough council and (f) Lancashire constabulary from speed camera fines in each of the last five years; (182688)

(2) how many fines from speed cameras were (a) unpaid and (b) overdue in Lancashire county council area at the most recent date for which figures were available.

Available information from 2001 to 2005 (latest available) is provided in the following table. 2006 data will be available later this year.

Information on revenue from speed camera convictions is not collected centrally.

The information collected by my department identifies the number of fixed penalties ordered to be paid and the number and amounts of court fines issued for each offences within each police force area. Fixed penalties that remain unpaid after the statutory period (28 days in the case of a fixed penalty resulting from unattended camera operation) are registered as fines at one and half times the original fixed penalty amount.

The overall payment rate for fines in general for the period April to December 2007 is 92 per cent. Court systems measure whether all fines are paid. They do not break this down to those that originate from speeding Fixed Penalty Notices, so this information is not available.

Fixed penalty notices issued1 and court imposed fines2,3 for speed limit offences detected by camera4,5, within Lancashire police force area, 2001-05

Number of offences

Fixed penalties

Court proceedings

Number of tickets

Number of fines

Total amount of fines (£)

Average fine (£)

2001

21,400

1,387

140,401

183

2002

88,700

1,663

110,377

66

2003

95,200

4,324

296,181

68

2004

61,400

3,565

256,926

72

2005

61,200

2,288

173,120

76

1 Only covers notices paid where there is no further action.

2 May include cases where a fixed penalty notice was issued and not paid and referred to court.

3 Magistrates courts data only. Fines given at the Crown court total nationally (England and Wales) less than 20 each year.

4 Offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and the Motor Vehicles (Speed Limits on Motorways) Regulations 1973.

5 Data are for all camera types.

6 £60 for a fixed penalty charge if paid.

Notes:

1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences are 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 systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) juvenile and (b) young offenders were in each secure accommodation in each month of each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. (182638)

The following tables show the number of juveniles and young adults detained in (a) each prison establishment in England and Wales as at 30 June of each year since 1997 and (b) each Secure Children’s Home and Secure Training Centre in England and Wales as at 30 June of each year since 2000.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Table 1: Juveniles (aged 15-17) in prison establishments in England and Wales as at 30 June each year, by establishment

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Total juvenile population1

2,666

2,530

2,489

2,461

2,450

2,613

2,253

2,274

2,326

2,440

2,428

Ashfield

0

0

0

237

246

252

173

250

268

297

323

Brinsford

143

168

151

166

180

173

174

179

186

194

147

Cardiff

23

16

16

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Cookham Wood

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

14

15

Castington

0

14

43

131

212

181

144

134

131

143

136

Deerbolt

108

117

41

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Dover

44

42

15

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Downview

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

12

16

14

Feltham

412

359

364

256

223

307

283

254

227

216

223

Huntercombe

62

107

72

320

244

261

213

289

290

302

295

Hull

33

22

29

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Lancaster Farms

77

40

46

107

108

172

171

180

204

209

220

Northallerton

34

28

30

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Onley

103

170

188

114

200

190

197

0

0

0

0

Stoke Heath

115

105

190

247

235

164

112

173

162

179

177

Thorn Cross

58

42

59

46

43

30

29

36

37

23

25

Warren Hill

0

0

0

0

0

0

163

181

187

189

187

Werrington

107

154

95

89

119

117

92

112

121

137

126

Wetherby

214

144

272

246

295

294

298

261

293

279

302

1 Total includes all establishments; however the breakdown includes only those establishments with 10 or more juveniles in each year (except where there has been a change of function during the period).

Table 2: Young adults1 in prison establishments in England and Wales as at 30 June each year, by establishment

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Total young adult population2

8,288

9,020

8,804

9,009

8,604

8,997

8,789

8,514

8,474

8,738

9,455

Altcourse

0

93

89

98

68

110

85

65

83

153

162

Ashfield

0

0

0

91

146

68

137

61

45

64

67

Aylesbury

253

271

330

338

346

347

343

356

424

438

431

Brinsford

413

326

344

306

278

280

267

263

261

262

325

Bullwood Hall

40

62

50

56

75

120

110

110

99

0

0

Chelmsford

55

75

68

133

162

166

170

148

120

142

215

Cardiff

122

71

100

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Colchester

37

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Castington

0

297

274

122

76

151

135

230

231

238

245

Drake Hall

21

14

11

16

29

40

29

28

13

25

12

Doncaster

434

408

457

429

410

345

272

308

290

288

344

Dorchester

31

21

22

28

18

18

19

22

29

31

23

Deerbolt

323

299

399

457

365

473

422

467

417

400

416

Dover

270

272

248

304

185

31

40

31

53

24

32

Eastwood Park

19

40

37

46

48

54

40

49

34

67

65

Exeter

76

76

73

58

49

46

69

51

74

51

70

Forest Bank

0

0

0

241

222

218

232

130

137

155

113

Feltham

595

531

454

497

475

384

365

411

404

402

407

Guys Marsh

123

126

137

132

131

137

131

138

71

72

71

Glen Parva

657

685

693

714

765

785

753

699

772

780

795

Hollesley Bay (Warren Hill)

167

172

173

141

71

67

23

17

18

16

26

Huntercombe

198

243

226

27

72

89

52

63

56

56

71

Moorland Open

175

161

114

120

121

113

122

61

62

54

50

Hindley

0

352

0

384

484

338

376

319

256

267

355

Hull

106

90

105

113

118

104

124

95

100

94

126

Holloway

60

50

70

63

40

57

51

43

65

110

109

Lancaster Farms

444

416

427

356

383

296

295

305

296

306

304

Low Newton

205

167

18

28

37

73

59

57

57

38

20

Lewes

103

66

73

84

70

41

20

27

30

40

29

Moorland

311

345

377

389

386

392

396

347

355

356

357

New Hall

46

67

84

79

83

55

55

55

49

54

58

Northallerton

271

217

230

216

170

223

217

226

211

211

247

Norwich

74

64

135

133

164

161

154

143

165

170

169

Onley

412

420

390

381

388

317

350

225

171

173

227

Peterborough

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

28

29

45

Portland

348

352

360

410

413

454

432

456

383

466

537

Parc

0

190

243

356

364

452

484

390

393

378

415

Rochester

0

71

90

79

91

167

167

300

386

380

382

Reading

198

201

187

215

221

262

250

260

285

280

257

Stoke Heath

205

477

433

323

290

482

493

477

465

484

488

Swinfen Hall

177

276

262

280

298

300

301

367

354

342

439

Styal

35

33

52

54

61

80

30

29

39

42

59

Thorn Cross

231

208

199

202

192

192

179

226

206

188

230

Woodhill

95

70

63

79

91

116

103

78

82

71

92

Warren Hill

0

0

0

0

0

0

27

37

29

34

39

Wetherby

19

139

61

23

44

40

46

32

53

52

56

1 Young adults are those aged 18-20 and those 21 year olds who were aged 20 or under at conviction who have not been reclassified as part of the adult population

2 Total includes all establishments; however the breakdown includes only those establishments with 10 or more young adults in each year (except where there has been a change of function at the establishment during the period).

Table 3: Juvenile and young offenders in Secure Children’s Homes and Secure Training Centres 2000-07

June

Establishment type

Establishment

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Secure Children’s Homes

Aldine House

5

3

5

6

5

5

5

5

Atkinson Unit

9

9

12

14

10

9

9

9

Aycliffe Young People’s Centre

27

31

33

33

34

31

26

30

Barton Moss Secure Unit

14

16

17

18

20

19

20

16

Briars Hey

3

5

3

6

0

0

0

0

Clare Lodge

11

10

12

10

0

0

0

0

Clayfields House

14

13

13

14

12

12

12

11

Dales House

5

7

9

7

6

0

0

0

Earlswood Secure Unit

3

2

2

1

2

0

0

0

East Moor

29

29

34

31

34

35

33

31

Gladstone House

8

5

9

13

16

16

16

9

Hillside

16

13

16

14

15

14

13

14

Kyloe House

3

5

4

3

3

3

3

3

Lansdowne Children’s Centre

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

Leverton Secure Unit

5

5

5

9

0

0

0

0

Lincolnshire Secure Unit

4

5

4

7

7

9

7

7

Market Street

4

7

6

4

0

0

0

0

Orchard Lodge

11

15

15

22

19

18

17

18

Red Bank Community Home

25

27

26

28

28

28

27

28

Redsands Secure Unit

4

3

6

3

0

0

0

0

St. John’s Centre (Tiffield)

9

12

10

13

10

0

0

0

St. Catherines Centre for Girls

1

3

0

3

1

0

0

0

Stamford House

18

14

20

19

0

0

0

0

Stoke House

8

10

7

0

0

0

0

0

Sutton Place

6

7

7

9

8

8

9

7

Swanwick Lodge

0

7

8

8

10

10

10

7

Thornbury House

1

7

4

7

6

0

0

0

Vinney Green

20

16

20

21

20

21

20

19

Watling House

3

3

6

4

0

0

0

0

SCH total

266

290

313

327

266

238

227

214

Secure Training Centres

Hassockfield STC

40

37

36

40

35

35

38

58

Medway

41

36

42

66

76

69

64

64

Oakhill STC

0

0

0

0

1

65

77

57

Rainsbrook

44

43

57

77

70

75

72

82

STC total

125

116

135

183

182

244

251

261

Note:

Data are not available pre 2000