Cycling: Pedestrian Areas

(asked on 5th September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) arrests and (b) cautions have been made in each of the last five years relating to cycling on pavements.


Answered by
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Norman Baker
This question was answered on 11th September 2014

The information requested on arrests is not held centrally by the Home Office.

The number of offenders cautioned for offences of riding on the footway in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013, supplied by the Ministry of Justice, is provided in the table below.

Offenders cautioned for offences relating to cycling on the footway, England and Wales, 2009 to 2013 (2)(3)
20092010201120122013
94---
'-' = Nil
(1) An offence under S72 of the Highways Act 1835
(2) The cautions statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When an offender has been cautioned for two or more offences at the same time the principal offence is the more serious offence.
(3) From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and warnings. These figures have been included in the totals.
Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.
Ref: 708-14 PQC 208401

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