Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many penalties for (a) traffic noise offences and (b) illegally modified exhaust systems have been issued in each year 2016.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on Fixed Penalty Notices and other outcomes for motoring offences, including wider offence category. The most recent data is available here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1040226/fixed-penalty-notices-and-other-motoring-offences-statistics-police-powers-and-procedures-year-ending-31-march-2021.xlsx

Data on the number of penalties for traffic noise offences, by year since 2016, has been provided in Annex A.

However, data is not collected specifically on penalties for illegally modified exhaust systems.