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Home Office

Answer

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money was raised in fines from speed cameras in the last year for which records are available in (a) West Sussex and (b) the East Worthing and Shoreham constituency. [175046] Caroline Flint: Information on the revenue raised from speed offences detected by camera is not available. Available information on the number of fixed penalties and court fines ordered to be paid within the Sussex police force area for the offence of `speeding detected by camera' in 2002 is shown in the table. It is not possible from the data collected centrally to identify the county of West Sussex and the constituency of East Worthing and Shoreham within the geographical area of the Sussex police force. Not all fines and fixed penalties will have been paid. Fixed penalty and court proceedings data for speeding offences detected by cameras1 in the Sussex police force area, 2002 Rounded _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2001 Fixed penalties Number of tickets2 19,000 Estimated revenue (£)3 1,141,000 Court proceedings 4 Number of fines 610 Total amount of fine (£) 54,700 Average fine (£) 90 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and The Motor Vehicles (Speed Limits on Motorways) Regulations 1973. 2 Paid i.e. no further action. 3 "Estimate" based on £60 penalty charge. 4 Includes cases where fixed penalty notices were originally issued but not paid and subsequently referred to court.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

175046; 421 c1548-9W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Cameras Fines Income Speed limits West Sussex Shoreham Worthing

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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