The available information is provided in the following table.
Sentencing Statistics 2008 will be published on 28 January 2010.
The figures which we have provided are shown by police force area and not by local highway authority, because the courts proceeding database does not hold this information.
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Avon and Somerset 53 102 71 56 83 Bedfordshire 11 16 23 15 20 Cambridgeshire 33 10 10 39 31 Cheshire 4 9 10 12 19 City of London 21 26 12 12 10 Cleveland 7 17 23 30 18 Cumbria 38 45 59 53 68 Derbyshire 49 45 40 21 42 Devon and Cornwall 61 62 37 30 40 Dorset 3 6 6 18 30 Durham 17 21 32 16 51 Essex 49 42 53 37 66 Gloucestershire 3 5 8 4 10 Greater Manchester 299 220 186 166 81 Hampshire 59 50 39 39 40 Hertfordshire 18 34 23 16 25 Humberside 51 20 29 30 29 Kent 31 33 26 24 35 Lancashire 15 9 14 6 8 Leicestershire 37 25 26 18 13 Lincolnshire 18 22 5 22 26 Merseyside 77 107 76 72 84 Metropolitan Police 577 564 445 199 123 Norfolk 16 16 15 5 16 North Yorkshire 11 14 25 20 22 Northamptonshire 2 5 5 9 16 Northumbria 53 57 72 59 88 Nottinghamshire 17 11 7 8 22 South Yorkshire 50 38 63 54 50 Staffordshire 10 19 19 15 20 Suffolk 15 18 10 3 4 Surrey 50 53 39 20 70 Sussex 14 18 16 17 16 Thames Valley 102 99 99 81 53 Warwickshire 5 12 7 3 6 West Mercia 15 31 20 39 26 West Midlands 111 102 120 104 111 West Yorkshire 94 64 79 101 74 Wiltshire 16 10 11 6 7 Dyfed-Powys 14 11 11 10 15 Gwent 12 15 14 7 12 North Wales 11 19 16 26 7 South Wales 47 95 41 61 57 Total 2,196 2,197 1,942 1,583 1,644 Note: The following offences have been included in the answer but they may not all relate solely to cycling on pavement (1), Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984 —s.25(5) By moving vehicle: Failing to accord precedence to foot passengers —s.25(5) offences connected with pedal cycles: in relation to pedestrian crossing —Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 S.17(4) Offences connected with pedal cycles —Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 S.25(5) - By moving vehicles: failing to accord precedence to foot passengers —Pelican Pedestrian crossing Regulations and General directions 1987 Regs 12-14 and 16-19 Failing to observe regulations —Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regs 1982 Reg 15—offences connected with pedal cycles —Highway Act 1835 S.72—Pedal cycles—riding on footpath —Highway Act 1835 S.78—Pedal cycles—riding to common danger —Metropolitan Police Act 1839S.54(7)—riding to common danger Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services. Ministry of Justice
These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.
These data are presented on the principal offence basis: where an offender has been sentenced for more than one offence the principal offence is the one for which the heaviest sentence was imposed; where the same sentence has been imposed for two or more offences the principal offence is the one for which the statutory maximum is most severe.