§ Mr. SalterTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions there have been in each of the last five years of cyclists riding on pavements, broken down by police authority. [62146]
§ Mr. DenhamInformation for 1996 to 2000 is shown in the table.
Statistics for 2001 will be available in the autumn. 620W
Persons1 proceeded against for riding a bicycle on the footway(pavement) by police force area, 1996–2000 England and Wales Number of persons Police force area 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Avon and Somerset 6 6 5 6 3 Bedfordshire — — — 1 — Cambridgeshire 37 7 3 4 — Cheshire — — 2 1 1 Cleveland — 2 — 1 3 Cumbria 26 39 39 28 16 Derbyshire 4 10 9 3 3 Devon and Cornwall 6 7 11 9 2 Dorset 2 2 4 2 6 Durham — 1 — 2 1 Essex 55 127 241 51 23 Gloucestershire 4 1 5 — 3 Greater Manchester 10 4 20 10 9 Hampshire 92 194 496 95 29 Hertfordshire 2 4 21 4 — Humberside 3 93 36 6 16 Kent 4 — 8 3 2 Lancashire 4 10 7 1 3 Leicestershire 3 6 1 1 2 Lincolnshire 37 14 8 15 4 London, City of 17 31 13 2 — Merseyside 13 9 8 3 2 Metropolitan Police 40 19 54 40 10 Norfolk 14 1 14 1 2 Northamptonshire 2 — 1 — 4 Northumbria 1 4 10 20 19 North Yorkshire 1 2 2 27 12 Nottinghamshire 2 1 2 2 5 South Yorkshire — — — — 1 Staffordshire2 1 — 2 3 — Suffolk 6 10 2 3 2 Surrey 2 — — — — Sussex 15 7 1 9 — Thames Valley 2 2 — 1 4 Warwickshire — 1 2 3 1 West Mercia 4 21 18 4 7 West Midlands 4 3 2 3 10 West Yorkshire 2 1 1 6 16 Wiltshire 2 3 3 4 1 Dyfed-Powys — — — 1 1 Gwent — 1 — — — North Wales — 1 3 — — South Wales — 4 1 1 — England and Wales 423 648 1,055 376 223 1These data are on the principal basis. 2Staffordshire Police were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates' courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table