Road Traffic Offences

Department for Transport written question – answered at on 4 March 2019.

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Photo of Jim Cunningham Jim Cunningham Labour, Coventry South

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people (a) charged and (b) found guilty of traffic offences in the UK in each year since 2010.

Photo of Jesse Norman Jesse Norman Minister of State (Department for Transport)

Statistics on prosecutions and convictions for motoring offences are available from the Ministry of Justice Motoring tool and shown below for years 2010 to 2017 for England and Wales:

Motoring offences

Number of defendants prosecuted at Magistrates' Court

Number of offenders found guilty at all courts

2010

681,594

586,515

2011

610,045

526,200

2012

570,481

489,588

2013

565,611

480,720

2014

591,118

512,043

2015

645,719

560,566

2016

667,317

590,260

2017

664,390

594,927

Source: MoJ Motoring Offences tool

The Ministry of Justice does not hold data for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

On motoring offences charges, the Home Office does not hold data on these charges apart from ‘causing death by dangerous driving’, because these offences are non-notifiable.

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