Mary Creagh – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Creagh on 2014-03-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2014, Official Report, column 372W, on driving: licensing, how many drivers within the two-year probationary period who received driving convictions undertook speed awareness courses in each year since 2010 (a) in total and (b) by police force area.
Karen Bradley
The number of drivers that opted for a National Driver Offender Retraining
Scheme (NDORS) speed awareness course rather than accept penalty points on
their driving licence in 2010 is 447,833, in 2011 is 772,180, in 2012 is 926,155 and
in 2013 is 953,464. These reflect the latest updated figures.
The following table shows the figures by police force area for the number of
drivers that opted for a speed awareness course.
The offer of a speed awareness course is at the discretion of the police. To be
deemed eligible there must be no excessive speed or other offences committed at
the same time. Information on previous motoring convictions is not taken into
account.
| NDORS Police Force Area | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| AVON AND SOMERSET CONSTABULARY | 0 | 267 | 38,244 | 36,064 |
| BEDFORDSHIRE POLICE | 6,707 | 11,440 | 15,370 | 12,075 |
| CAMBRIDGESHIRE CONSTABULARY | 17,691 | 17,301 | 16,974 | 9,148 |
| CHESHIRE | 6,066 | 15,198 | 16,702 | 14,490 |
| CITY OF LONDON POLICE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153 |
| CLEVELAND POLICE | 8,278 | 12,147 | 10,282 | 7,198 |
| CUMBRIA CONSTABULARY | 11,967 | 18,436 | 19,878 | 20,218 |
| DERBYSHIRE CONSTABULARY | 5,657 | 9,275 | 14,385 | 12,666 |
| DEVON AND CORNWALL CONSTABULARY | 8,720 | 13,516 | 17,959 | 16,608 |
| DORSET POLICE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DURHAM CONSTABULARY | 0 | 1,436 | 4,517 | 4,267 |
| DYFED-POWYS POLICE | 100 | 1,158 | 1,229 | 1,870 |
| ESSEX POLICE | 0 | 8,113 | 21,957 | 22,605 |
| GLOUCESTERSHIRE CONSTABULARY | 937 | 2,317 | 4,573 | 5,445 |
| GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE | 39,959 | 45,639 | 49,463 | 45,064 |
| GWENT POLICE | 1 | 39 | 34 | 6 |
| HAMPSHIRE CONSTABULARY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36,986 |
| HERTFORDSHIRE CONSTABULARY | 8,128 | 14,802 | 23,700 | 20,216 |
| HUMBERSIDE POLICE | 0 | 0 | 15,499 | 29,791 |
| KENT COUNTY POLICE | 3,430 | 23,787 | 31,790 | 27,446 |
| LANCASHIRE CONSTABULARY | 13,082 | 24,949 | 22,491 | 27,287 |
| LEICESTERSHIRE CONSTABULARY | 14,262 | 16,055 | 17,381 | 16,292 |
| LINCOLNSHIRE POLICE | 4,054 | 18,083 | 25,595 | 19,223 |
| MERSEYSIDE POLICE | 10,923 | 15,683 | 17,964 | 20,022 |
| METROPOLITAN POLICE | 0 | 0 | 9,034 | 31,818 |
| NORFOLK CONSTABULARY | 11,665 | 16,054 | 17,054 | 23,527 |
| NORTH WALES POLICE | 16,843 | 15,141 | 16,069 | 17,711 |
| NORTH YORKSHIRE POLICE | 3,332 | 6,768 | 9,855 | 18,049 |
| NORTHAMPTONSHIRE POLICE | 6,671 | 14,944 | 11,444 | 12,520 |
| NORTHUMBRIA POLICE | 28,452 | 28,195 | 39,707 | 40,892 |
| NOTTINGHAMSHIRE POLICE | 15,615 | 21,728 | 24,217 | 25,060 |
| POLICE SERVICE NORTHERN IRELAND | 9,294 | 19,582 | 27,020 | 27,320 |
| SCOTLAND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SOUTH WALES POLICE | 29,587 | 58,025 | 55,573 | 51,182 |
| SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE | 14,453 | 35,040 | 27,698 | 28,035 |
| STAFFORDSHIRE POLICE | 16,040 | 21,205 | 25,354 | 27,987 |
| SUFFOLK CONSTABULARY | 15,507 | 27,019 | 20,122 | 22,461 |
| SURREY POLICE | 4,604 | 17,845 | 25,349 | 23,107 |
| SUSSEX POLICE | 6,194 | 28,589 | 33,425 | 22,328 |
| THAMES VALLEY POLICE | 48,859 | 73,625 | 87,199 | 78,593 |
| WARWICKSHIRE POLICE | 3,584 | 6,577 | 6,350 | 17,482 |
| WEST MERCIA CONSTABULARY | 31,347 | 44,094 | 41,416 | 34,277 |
| WEST MIDLANDS POLICE | 2,879 | 21,033 | 20,603 | 14,551 |
| WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE | 22,945 | 47,075 | 42,679 | 31,424 |
| WILTSHIRE CONSTABULARY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total: | 447,833 | 772,180 | 926,155 | 953,464 |
