The number of successful prosecutions in magistrates courts for unlicensed vehicle excise duty offences (section 29) for each financial year is as follows:
April to March Number 1999-2000 204,606 2000-01 203,773 2001-02 223,047 2002-03 229,846 2003-04 234,924 2004-05 189,441 2005-06 142,055 2006-07 103,108
The total number of prosecutions for the first 10 months of 2007-08 is currently 69,847.
Section 29 vehicle excise duty offences are identified by police and local authorities. Since the introduction of continuous registration (CR) enforcement from the record in March 2004, these reports have gradually decreased. Since 2004-05, in addition to the achieved prosecutions in the table, the following number of evasion cases have been successfully settled out of court:
April to March Number 2004-05 317,482 2005-06 425,698 2006-07 391,708
The total number for the first 10 months of 2007-08 is currently 381,980.