Drunk and Disorderly Fines

Mr. Carswell
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many £80 fines for being drunk and disorderly were collected in each of the last 12 months.

Mr. McNulty
Provisional data held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform shows that in 2005, 36,309 Penalty Notices for Disorder were issued for being drunk and disorderly in England and Wales. In 20,463 of these cases the penalty was paid, with a further 14,161 unpaid tickets registered as fines for collection or enforcement by the courts. 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 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.