David Ruffley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many drink-driving offences were recorded in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years; and how many successful prosecutions for such offences there have been.

Norman Baker

Drink driving is a summary offence, and not a notifiable offence. The Home Office only collects data on notifiable offences.

The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts for offences relating to drink driving, in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 can be viewed in Table 1. The same data for Suffolk can be viewed in Table 2. This data is held by the Ministry of Justice.

Data is not available below Police Force Area level, and so data for Bury St Edmunds cannot be provided.