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Written question asked by Grant Shapps (Conservative) on Wednesday, 21 June 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 26 June 2006. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Tuesday, 27 June 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.


Road Safety

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions there have been for persons using hand-held mobile telephones while driving in each year since the regulation came into force, broken down by constabulary.
Answer

Available information on fixed penalty notices relating to all offences of obstruction, waiting and parking within the Staffordshire police force area during the calendar years 2000 to 2004 (latest available) is given in the table. It is not possible from the data collected centrally to identify the Trent Valley Division within the geographical area covered by the Staffordshire police force.Information for 2005 will be available early in 2007.

Findings of guilt at magistrates courts for the offence of use of hand-held mobile phone while driving¹ by police force area, England and Wales, 2003-04
Number of offences
Total findings of guilt
Police force area 2003 2004
Avon and Somerset 19
Bedfordshire 1 5
Cambridgeshire 6
Cheshire 1
Cleveland 3
Cumbria 24
Derbyshire 16
Devon and Cornwall 17
Dorset
Durham 1
Essex 25
Gloucestershire 1
Greater Manchester 65
Hampshire 15
Hertfordshire 6
Humberside 4
Kent
Lancashire 16
Leicestershire 9
Lincolnshire 5
London, City of 5
Merseyside 20
Metropolitan Police 124
Norfolk 15
Northamptonshire
Northumbria 29
North Yorkshire 18
Nottinghamshire 7
South Yorkshire 12
Staffordshire 10
Suffolk 4
Surrey 7
Sussex 1
Thames Valley 21
Warwickshire 7
West Mercia 15
West Midlands 52
West Yorkshire 9
Wiltshire 19
Dyfed Powys 13
Gwent
North Wales 3
South Wales 12
England and Wales 1 641
¹ Offences under the Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) Regulations 1986, Regulations 110 (1), 110 (2) and 110 (3) introduced 1 December 2003. Source: Court Proceedings Database.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
80424; 448 c278-9W
Session
2005-06
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP 06/1457
Thursday, 20 July 2006
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects
Mobile phones Road traffic offences
Link
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