§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of(a) prosecutions and (b) convictions for each of the last three years for (i) driving without due care and attention under section 3 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 and (ii) failing to have proper control over a vehicle under regulation 104 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986; and if he will express the figures as a percentage change for each of the years.
§ Mr. John PattenThe available information on offences under section 3 of the 1972 Act relates to proceedings and findings of guilt at magistrates courts and is published annually in "Offences Relating to Motor Vehicles, England and Wales, Supplementary Tables" (table 5 of the issues for 1984 to 1986, the latest available), copies of which are in the Library. For offences under regulation 104 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 and corresponding earlier legislation, proceedings were recorded in respect of 733 alleged offences in the magistrates' courts in 1986, 622 of which 427W resulted in a finding of guilt; equivalent figures for 1984 and 1985 could be provided only at disproportionate cost. As from 1 October 1986, offences under regulation 104 may he dealt with by means of a fixed penalty notice, but the information collected centrally does not separately distinguish offences under regulation 104 from other careless driving offences.