§ Andy BurnhamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in each police force area were charged by police with driving without insurance in each of the last five years. [148742]
§ Ms BlearsInformation on the number of people charged is not collected centrally.
However, the number of prosecutions for the offence of using a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks is given in the table from 1997 to 2001 by police force area.
Information for 2002 will be available in the spring.
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Total proceedings at the magistrates courts for the offence of using a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks1 total offences by persons2–England and Wales Number of offences Police force 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Avon and Somerset 15,354 16,891 15,094 14,609 13,022 Bedfordshire 4,724 4,449 3,477 3,594 4,651 Cambridgeshire 3,438 3,422 3,056 2,926 2,507 Cheshire 4,836 4,958 5,458 5,725 4,973 Cleveland 3,925 4,203 4,330 4,793 4,789 Cumbria 4,215 3,783 3,596 3,507 3,594 Derbyshire 5,563 5,135 5,118 5,314 5,428 Devon and Cornwall 8,422 7,231 7,493 9,233 8,648 Dorset 5,271 4,198 4,776 6,035 5,262 Durham 3,989 4,260 5,898 5,470 5,394 Essex 7,151 7,020 7,333 7,893 7,705 Gloucestershire 3,574 4,463 4,442 4,173 4,681 Greater Manchester 30,636 30,829 33,203 33,762 37,068 Hampshire 11,764 11,552 11,545 10,557 10,347 Hertfordshire 4,575 5,795 4,744 5,254 5,815 Humberside 4,402 4,278 4,892 5,021 4,729 Kent 6,931 6,955 6,150 9,032 9,588 Lancashire 20,326 18,787 18,097 18,348 16,268 Leicestershire 9,696 9,476 11,053 10,260 10,467 Lincolnshire 4,589 4,999 5,345 4,500 4,083 London, City of 2,669 3,127 2,517 1,738 1,824 Merseyside 10,896 9,741 8,932 10,054 9,466 Metropolitan Police 42,266 35,057 31,269 29,635 32,015 Norfolk 3,928 3,433 3,467 3,951 4,744 Northamptonshire 4,997 4,842 5,560 3,946 2,027 Northumbria 12,469 11,837 13,296 13,192 12,503 North Yorkshire 3,925 3,742 4,001 3,903 3,541 Nottinghamshire 8,078 8.725 7,955 7,748 7,856 South Yorkshire 11,223 11,551 11,759 12,689 14,615 Staffordshire 8,175 8,206 8.018 8,777 6,023 Suffolk 3,254 3,743 4,188 3,918 4,119 Surrey 4,940 3,908 4,436 4,939 5,100 Sussex 9,333 8,201 7,413 6,796 6,814 Thames Valley 11,884 11,945 13,540 12,811 11,723 Warwickshire 4,315 3,761 3,522 4,133 4,204 West Mercia 7,075 8,207 7,446 7,686 7,784 West Midlands 29,862 30,916 27,400 28,140 27,000 West Yorkshire 23,978 23,546 25,769 26,527 27,616 Wiltshire 3,459 4,818 4,706 4,901 5,292 Dyfed-Powys 3,079 2,852 3,017 3,071 2,952 Gwent 4,094 4,476 4,451 4,679 4,757 North Wales 4,859 4,452 -4,101 3,696 3,370 South Wales 14,828 16,186. 15,403 14,615 13,803 England and Wales 396,967 389,956 387,266 391,551 388,167 1 An offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 s143(2) 2 Excludes companies, local authorities etc. One person may be proceeded against more than once on the same occasion.