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Driving Offences: Fines

Volume 474: debated on Wednesday 26 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of fines for motoring offences were issued after (a) an offence was recorded on a traffic camera and (b) a fixed penalty notice was issued by a police officer in each year since 1997. (195602)

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Data for 2006 will be available later this year.

Number and proportion of motoring offences fixed penalty notices issued where (a) the offence was detected by camera1,2; and (b) the fixed penalty notice was issued by a police officer3, England and Wales 1997 to 2005

Fixed penalty notices issued

Following detection by camera1,2

Directly by police officer3,4

Total

1997

Number

323,200

3,104,600

3,427,800

Percentage

9

91

100

1998

Number

370,500

3,069,400

3,439,900

Percentage

11

89

100

1999

Number

460,100

2,673,600

3,133,700

Percentage

15

85

100

2000

Number

642,400

2,355,900

2,998,300

Percentage

21

79

100

2001

Number

923,000

1,995,000

2,918,000

Percentage

32

68

100

2002

Number

1,206,300

1,791,100

2,997,400

Percentage

40

60

100

2003

Number

1,784,500

1,672,200

3,456,700

Percentage

52

48

100

2004

Number

1,899,800

1,534,900

3,434,700

Percentage

55

45

100

2005

Number

1,886,700

1,316,300

3,203,000

Percentage

59

41

100

1 Automatic cameras until 1998, all camera types from 1999. 2 Covers speeding and traffic light offences only. 3 Including traffic wardens. 4 Covers all motoring offences where a fixed penalty notice can be given. 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 the police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when these data are used.