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Driving: Mobile Telephones

Answer

Available information for England and Wales for 2003 on the number of fixed penalty notices and court fines ordered to be paid for the new offence (introduced as from 1 December 2003) of driving while using a hand-held mobile telephone is given in the table. Data for 2004 will be available in early 2006.The information requested is not currently available for Scotland. The most up-to-date prosecutions data currently held by the Northern Ireland Office are those for 2003. The offence of using a hand-held mobile phone while driving was not introduced in Northern Ireland until 1 February 2004. Use of a hands-free mobile phone is not part of the new offence.

Fixed penalty notices and court proceedings data for the offence of use of hand-held mobile phone while driving¹, England and Wales 2003 Number of offences
	Type of action
	Court proceedings²			Fixed Penalties
Police Force Area	Total findings of guilt	Amount of fines (£)	Number of tickets³	Estimated revenue (£)(4)
England and Wales	(5)1	30	1,888	56,640
¹   Offences under the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, Regulations 110 (1), 110 (2) and 110 (3). Introduced 1 December 2003. ²   Includes cases where fixed penalty notices were originally issued but not paid and subsequently referred to court. ³   Only covers tickets paid where there is no further action. (4)   Estimate based on fixed penalty charge of £30. (5)   In the month of December 2003.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

543; 673 c123-4WA

Session

2005-06

Related items

Driving: Mobile Phones
Tuesday, 18 October 2005
Written questions
House of Lords

Subjects

Convictions Fines Prosecutions Mobile phones Road traffic offences

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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