§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which motoring offences are included within the scope of his Department's statistics on offences that are brought to justice. [172405]
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Motoring offences included with Home Office offences brought to justice statistics Classification code Brief description of offence Legislation Indictable offences 004/04 Causing death by dangerous driving Road Traffic Act 1988 S.1 as amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 S.1 and CJA 1993 S.67
004/06 Death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs
Road Traffic Act 1988 S.3A as added by Road Traffic Act 1991 S.3 and amended by Criminal
Justice Act 1993 S.6
008/04 Causing bodily harm by furious driving Offence Against the Person Act 1861 S.35 Triable-Either-Way Offences 005/11 Causing danger by causing anything to be on road, interfering with vehicles or traffic equipment
Road Traffic Act 1988 S. 22A as added by Road Traffic Act 1991 S.6
037/01 Where, owing the driving of the vehicle, an accident occurs causing the death of any person
Theft Act 1968 S.12A as added by the Aggravated 037/02 Where the vehicle was being driven dangerously, where injury to any person or damage to any
property was caused, or damage was caused to
the vehicle
Theft Act 1968 S.12A as added by the Aggravated 048/01 Stealing motor vehicles Theft Act 1968 S.1 802/00 Aiding, abetting, causing or permitting reckless driving
Road Traffic Act 1988 S.2 as amended by Road Traffic Act 1991 S.2
814/01 Fraud, forgery etc. associated with driving licence Road Traffic Act 1988 S.173(1) Public Passenger Vehicle Act 1981 S.65 (1) (a) and (2)
814/02 Fraud, forgery etc. associated with insurance certificate
Road Traffic Act 1988 SS.173 (1) and 175 (a) 814/03 Fraud, forgery etc. associated with registration and licensing documents
Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 SS.44 and 45; Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 S.65
(1) (b) and (2)
814/04 Fraud, forgery etc. associated with work records Transport Act 1968 S.99 (5) 814/05 Fraud, forgery etc. associated with operator's licence
Goods Vehicle (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 S.38; Sch. 5 Para 4; Road Traffic Act 1988 S.173
(1) Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 S.65 (1)
(a) and (2)
814/06 Fraud, forgery etc. associated with test certificate Road Traffic Act 1988 SS.173 (1) and 175 (b) 814/07 Mishandling or faking parking documents Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 S.115 (1)
§ Paul GogginsThe table gives information relating to the motoring offences included within Home Office statistics on offences that are brought to justice.
The offences brought to justice target counts notifiable (recorded) crimes that resulted in a positive outcome during the period, that is where the offender was brought to justice by being issued with a penalty notice for disorder (PND), cautioned, convicted or the offences being taken into consideration (TIC).
Notifiable offences are those offences that must be notified by police forces to the Home Office and are published as recorded crime as part of the National Crime Statistics.
The offence code 825/90 (miscellaneous motoring offences), which was included in the 2003–04 targets for each criminal justice system area, will be excluded from the 2004–05 offences brought to justice targets as most of the offences it covers are not notifiable. However, the notifiable element of 825/90 "Tampering with Motor Vehicles" will be retained by giving it a new offence code from April 2004 onwards.
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Motoring offences included with Home Office offences brought to justice statistics Classification code Brief description of offence Legislation Summary offences 130/01 Unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle or being carried knowing vehicle to have been taken or
driven
Theft Act 1968 S.12 (1) as amended by Criminal Justice Act 1988 S.37
131/01 Where the only factor is criminal damage of £5,000 or under
Theft Act 1968 S.168 S.12A as added by 825/901 Tampering with motor vehicle and other miscellaneous non-notifiable offences
Road Traffic Act 1988 S.25 plus other road traffic legislation
1 The offences included within the offence code 825/90 will be excluded from offences brought to justice calculations from 2004–05 onwards with the exception of "tampering with a motor vehicle", which has been allocated it own code from April 2004 onwards.