Question to the Home Office:

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 who received driving convictions within their two year probation period undertook speed awareness courses in each year since 2010.

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, 2012 is 926,155 and in
2013 is 953,464. These reflect the latest updated figures.
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.
The Department for Transport and the police are in advanced stages of
commissioning a long term study to assess the effectiveness of speed awareness
courses.