The Department for Transport holds only information about speed and red light cameras operating under the National Safety Camera Programme which started in 2001 and ended on 31 March 2007. The numbers of fixed penalty notices issued by each safety camera partnership were not collected. However, details of fixed penalty notices issued and subsequently paid, broken down by partnership area, are outlined in the following table:
2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Avon and Somerset — — 68,067 99,151 82,054 73,914 59,555 Bedfordshire — — 50,792 60,920 58,439 50,558 50,362 Cambridgeshire — 2,257 12,856 20,763 19,941 20,998 20,474 Cheshire — — — 30,064 37,690 33,256 32,469 Cleveland 14,983 14,418 24,395 21,144 21,907 21,056 18,101 Cumbria — — — 26,979 29,792 26,836 30,984 Derbyshire — 10,900 32,192 47,040 40,485 30,072 29,041 Devon and Cornwall — — 19,749 48,974 53,204 47,508 43,144 Dorset — — 23,733 65,984 49,791 50,098 46,822 Essex 30,775 58,735 94,537 85,629 78,505 78,881 65,284 Gloucestershire — — — — — 13,702 12,081 Greater Manchester — — — 48,118 41,221 59,085 67,578 Hampshire — — 29,096 41,587 52,128 48,476 45,171 Hertfordshire — — 5,464 31,695 58,556 46,887 42,759 Humberside — — 0 44,681 42,469 45,289 36,164 Kent — — 30,994 54,929 60,959 50,285 61,206 Lancashire — 19,953 98,495 84,560 58,869 62,887 57,551 Leicestershire — — 33,644 38,538 29,368 37,010 30,066 Lincolnshire 10,450 10,477 26,222 23,717 25,977 29,252 21,924 London — — 85,351 108,291 148,379 157,597 126,130 Merseyside — — — — — 18,332 24,848 Mid and South Wales 26,117 31,271 121,076 121,353 109,224 101,014 98,031 Norfolk — 2,669 20,101 27,157 23,958 22,100 24,914 North Wales — 10,813 43,484 56,247 50,495 66,038 55,399 Northamptonshire 36,131 45,559 59,845 55,819 47,976 51,265 42,186 Northumbria — — — 53,426 71,647 63,387 48,407 Nottinghamshire 9,273 14,472 46,711 55,530 59,392 52,940 53,129 South Yorkshire — — 15,814 52,816 51,048 60,376 41,982 Staffordshire — 10,520 36,299 40,604 45,054 46,632 43,109 Suffolk — — — 24,144 39,406 33,087 31,623 Surrey — — — — — 23,940 39,224 Sussex — — 26,582 62,880 46,752 56,912 50,032 Thames Valley 37,319 77,881 114,933 111,646 92,690 90,833 75,248 Warwickshire — 3,405 39,810 50,862 43,454 39,088 33,536 West Mercia — — — 51,436 51,599 47,554 44,191 West Midlands — — 11,742 46,000 54,904 48,073 45,820 West Yorkshire — — 37,594 60,432 67,076 56,838 42,955 Wiltshire — — 21,693 39,680 51,085 48,368 50,230
The Department for Transport seeks to identify and disseminate examples of good practice across the road safety field generally. In addition, the Department's guidance on the use of safety cameras recommends that speed and collision data are collected by the partnerships and the contribution cameras make to casualty reduction monitored and reviewed, at least annually.
The Department for Transport issued DFT Circular 01/2007, ‘Guidance on the Deployment of Speed and Red Light Cameras’ on 31 January 2007. The guidance was placed in the Libraries of the House and is also available on the Department's website. This recommends that partnerships proactively provide information about safety cameras, including their deployment and benefits, but do so as part of a wider approach to road safety related communications that aim to raise public awareness of behaviours that can cause casualties on the roads. Communications expenditure is entirely a matter for individual local partnerships using funds from their allocation of the Department's specific road safety grant.