§ Mr. LoveTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many motories were(a) fined and (b) banned from driving as a result of the evidence of 1410W speed cameras in each of the last five years; how much money was raised from fines in each year; and if he will make a statement. [187001]
§ Caroline FlintAvailable information for England and Wales on the number of fixed penalties and court fines ordered to be paid and on the number of persons disqualified from driving for the offence of 'speeding detected by camera' in 1998 to 2002 is shown in tables A and B respectively. Data for 2003 will not be available until the autumn.
Information on the revenue raised from speeding fines is not available centrally.
Table A: Fines and, fixed penalty data for speeding offences detected by camera1,2, England and Wales, 1998–2002 Court proceedings3 Fixed penalties Number of fines Total amount of fine (£) Average fine (£) Number of tickets4 Estimated revenue (£)5 1998 25,500 2,928,000 115 338,800 13,552,000 1999 32,300 3,434,000 106 423,000 16,920,000 2000 31,800 3,400,000 107 599,200 25,965,000 2001 40,500 4.510.000 111 877,500 52,650,000 2002 46,300 4.778,000 103 1.135,000 68,122,000 1Automatic cameras until 1998, all camera types from 1999. 2 Offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and The Motor Vehicles (Speed Limits on Motorways) Regulations 1973. 3 Includes cases where fixed penalty notices were originally issued but not paid and subsequently referred to court. 4 Paid i.e. no further action. 5 Estimate based on £40 fixed penalty charge to October 2000. From November 2000 the penalty was raised to £60.
Table B: Number of persons disqualified1 from driving at all courts for speeding offences detected by camera1,3, England and Wales, 1998–2002 Number 1998 1,300 1999 1,300 2000 1,400 2001 2,000 2002 1,800 1 Excludes persons disqualified under s.35 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (penalty points system). 2 Offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and The Motor Vehicles (Speed Limits on Motorways) Regulations 1973. 3 Automatic cameras until 1998, all camera types from 1999.