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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fixed penalty notices have been issued under section 72 of the Highways Act 1835, in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) police and (b) local authority area. [196411] Caroline Flint: The regular collection of data on fixed penalties for motoring offences does not identify separately offences peculiar to driving a motor vehicle on a footpath (section 72 of the Highways Act 1835), from other motoring offences of neglect of pedestrian rights. Neither are fixed penalty data collected centrally on the number of pedal cyclists riding on a footpath or obstructions caused by animals (also under section 72 of the Highways Act 1835). However, the table shows information collected as part of a special exercise conducted in 2001 on the number of fixed penalties issued by police force area, for specific offences under section 72 of the Highways Act 1835, in 1999 and 2000 only. Fixed penalty offences: Number of substantive tickets issued, England and Wales, August to December 1999 and January to December 2000 for cycling and driving on the footpath (pavement) offences under section 72 of the Highways Act 1835 by police force area _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Cycling on the footpath (pavement) Driving on the footpath (pavement) Police force area 1999 2000 1999 2000 Avon and Somerset 19 34 16 42 Bedfordshire -- -- -- -- Cambridgeshire n/a n/a n/a n/a Cheshire 6 14 2 6 Cleveland 5 5 -- -- Cumbria 12 20 4 24 Derbyshire 3 8 3 11 Devon and Cornwall 28 34 4 43 Dorset 7 17 7 1 Durham 7 11 1 1 Essex 76 55 5 7 Gloucestershire 25 47 6 4 Greater Manchester 38 78 1n/a 1n/a Hampshire 52 52 -- 4 Hertfordshire 11 6 3 13 Humberside 19 64 1 14 Kent 48 44 39 92 Lancashire 8 20 41 11 Leicestershire 13 5 2 1 Lincolnshire 15 4 3 2 London, City of 10 3 10 -- Merseyside 18 20 5 7 Metropolitan Police 29 66 8 22 Norfolk 28 14 21 3 Northamptonshire 2 7 -- -- Northumbria 21 27 9 58 North Yorkshire 18 16 53 191 Nottinghamshire 5 1 2 3 South Yorkshire 11 34 61 111 Staffordshire 23 4 2-- 5 Suffolk 53 30 -- -- Surrey 13 1 4 16 Sussex 15 9 -- -- Thames Valley 8 6 2 3 Warwickshire 2 3 2 2 West Mercia 36 17 5 6 West Midlands 4 9 1 17 West Yorkshire 3-- 2 32 -- Wiltshire 6 23 1 7 Dyfed-Powys 7 3 1 -- Gwent -- 1 1 -- North Wales n/a 41 34 41 South Wales 4 6 38 60 Total (42 forces) 665 821 377 788 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. n/a = Not available 1 Included within cycling on the footpath (pavement). 2 October to December 1999 only. 3 November and December 1999 only. 4 October to December 2000 only.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

196411; 426 c889-90W;426 c893-4W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Cycling Fixed penalties Driving Public footpaths Pedestrian areas Road traffic offences

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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