HC Deb 24 July 1996 vol 282 cc609-10W
Ms Glenda Jackson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of traffic violations involving departmental vehicles, the nature of the violations, and the total amount of fines arising from those violations, in each year since 1986. [39313]

Mr. Howard

Figures for before February 1988 are not available, but the information requested since that date is as follows:

  • February 1988-July 1992
  • 77 fixed penalty notices
  • 7 excess charge notices
  • 4 notice of intended prosecutions
  • 1 overloading
  • Total fines £2,140
  • July 1992-July 1993
  • 34 fixed penalty notices
  • 9 excess charge notices
  • 8 notice of intended prosecutions
  • Total fines £1,516
  • August 1993-mid-August 1994
  • 22 fixed penalty notices
  • 24 excess charge notices
  • 23 notice of intended prosecutions
  • 1 penalty charge notice
  • 1 standard charge notice
  • Total fines £1,807
  • Mid-August 1994-April 1995
  • 13 fixed penalty notices
  • 3 excess charge notices
  • 610
  • 29 notice of intended prosecutions
  • 18 penalty charge notices
  • 5 standard charge notices
  • Total fines £1,875
  • May 1995-December 1995
  • 24 fixed penalty notices
  • 17 notice of intended prosecutions
  • 6 penalty charge notices
  • Total fines £1,770
  • January 1996-Present
  • 3 fixed penalty notices
  • 2 excess charge notices
  • 12 notice of intended prosecutions
  • 15 penalty charge notices
  • 1 standard charge notice
  • Total fines £836

Details of the fines incurred by drivers who are prosecuted are not available.