Philip Davies – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-03-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fixed penalty notices police forces have issued related to smoking in vehicles with children in each of the last three years.

Mr John Hayes

Information on the number of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) issued by police forces is not centrally collected.

The police and local authorities are both enforcement authorities for offences related to smoking in private vehicles carrying children. Therefore in addition to police forces doing so, local authorities can also issue fixed penalty notices for these offences, and the police can pass information to local authorities to take enforcement action.

The legislation came into effect in October 2015, so no FPNs for smoking in vehicles with children would have been issued before this period.