[holding answer 10 March 2009]: The number of penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) issued and not paid within the suspended enforcement period in England and Wales for each year from 2005 to 2007 (latest published), broken down by offence are in the following table. PND data for 2008 will be available in November 2009.
Under the PND scheme, recipients have 21 days in which either to pay the penalty or request a court hearing. If no action is taken, a fine of one and a half times the penalty amount is registered against an offender by the magistrates court. The overall fine payment rate at court is 85 per cent.; the courts fine registration system cannot differentiate between those fines arising from unpaid PNDs and any other fine.
2005 2006 2007 Offence Issued Not paid Issued Not paid Issued Not paid Wasting police time 2,525 1,326 3,933 2,022 3,966 2,104 Misuse of public telecommunications system 405 167 909 386 1,193 523 Giving false alarm to fire or rescue authority 92 43 106 63 96 41 Causing harassment, alarm and distress 64,007 30,092 82,235 39,115 77,827 37,470 Throwing fireworks 642 295 682 302 649 275 Drunk and disorderly 37,038 16,176 43,556 18,883 46,996 20,629 Criminal Damage (under £500) 12,168 5,172 20,620 9,269 19,946 8,874 Theft (retail under £200) 21,997 12,940 38,772 22,603 45,146 26,035 Breach of fireworks curfew 33 15 53 19 39 14 Possession of category 4 firework 13 8 28 16 22 12 Possession of adult firework by person under 18 47 18 76 25 106 39 Sale of alcohol to drunken person 32 8 47 12 81 17 Supply of alcohol to person under 18 3 1 60 7 54 13 Sale of alcohol to person under 18 2,058 253 3,195 439 3,583 509 Purchase alcohol for person under 18 170 64 407 139 555 235 Purchase alcohol for person under 18 for consumption on premises 83 24 60 21 64 33 Delivery of alcohol to person under 18 or allowing such delivery 209 81 297 121 431 163 Trespass on a railway 220 123 1,042 491 1,527 747 Throwing stones at a train/railway 20 7 15 9 25 12 Drunk in a highway 3,138 1,469 2,712 1,279 2,066 920 Consumption of alcohol in public place 712 544 1,061 809 1,544 1,216 Littering 737 369 1,169 576 1,374 669 Consumption of alcohol by person under 18 on relevant premises 84 18 75 20 85 18 Allowing consumption of alcohol by person under 18 on relevant premises 27 13 14 4 11 2 Buying or attempting to buy alcohol by person under 18 21 8 73 21 158 49 Total—all offences 146,481 69,234 201,197 96,651 207,544 100,619 1 Not paid—not paid within the suspended enforcement period. 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 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: Evidence and Analysis Unit—Office for Criminal Justice Reform