Road Traffic Offences: Prosecutions

(asked on 12th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 11 of February 2019 to Question 217439 on Crown Prosecution Service: West Midlands and with reference to the finding that there was a 67 percent reduction in the number of minor motoring cases in that area with a similar fall reflected across England, how many minor motoring cases there were in (a) the West Midlands and (b) England in each year since 2010.


Answered by
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Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 18th February 2019

The tables below show the number of finalised prosecution outcomes with the Principal Offence Category of Motoring and the Mode of Trial recorded as Summary-Only during each year from 2010-11 to 2017-18 in the West Midlands CPS Area and in England.

During the period in question, the percentage reduction in caseload was 67.4% in the West Midlands and 67.1% in England.

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

West Midlands

28,770

24,720

24,039

19,202

9,377

10,833

11,149

9,392

England

269,129

239,581

208,235

150,565

94,424

97,441

93,031

88,469

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