Speed Limits: Cameras Mrs. Villiers To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many fixed penalty notices have been issued by each Safety Camera Partnership and successor organisation since 2001. Paul Clark 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 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Villiers To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport pursuant to the answer of 1 June 2009, Official Report, column 19W, on speed limits: cameras, whether he has established a regular programme of evaluation of speed cameras. Paul Clark 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. Mrs. Villiers To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what guidance his Department issues to safety camera partnerships on their (a) expenditure on and (b) use of communications services. Paul Clark 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.