Speeches

Fiona Bruce – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona Bruce on 2015-11-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were charged with drink-driving in each of the last three years.

Mike Penning

The below table provides the published figures on the number of people who were charged with drink driving in each of the last three years.

Offence

2012

2013

2014

Driving with alcohol in the blood above the prescribed limit

45,841

41,798

38,866

Other offences related to drink- or drug-driving

7,915

9,421

9,421

This and other data on, for example, the number of prosecutions for drink driving offences is published by the Ministry of Justice and can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014