HC Deb 09 April 2003 vol 403 c282W
Mr. Hawkins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many speeding offences, detected by speed cameras, resulted in(a) court action, (b) the issue of a fixed penalty notice during 2002 and (c) neither of these penalties; and if he will make a statement. [107917]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth

[holding answer 8 April 2003]Data on the number of speeding offences detected by camera in England and Wales for 2001 (latest available) are given in the table. 2002 data will be available in the autumn.

Prosecutions, fixed penalties and written warnings for speeding

offences detected by camera, England and Wales, 2001
Number
Prosecutions 137,100
Fixed penalty1 877,500
Written warning2 n/a
n/a = Not available
1 Paid, i.e. no further action.
2 Data collected centrally from forces on written warnings given for speeding offences detected by camera not given as considered unreliable. A total of 17,300 written warnings for all speed limit offences were issued in 2001.