Speeches

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