Motor Vehicles: Crime

(asked on 20th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offences there have been of non-compliance with section 59 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 in (a) Sussex and (b) England.


Answered by
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Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 28th July 2020

The Ministry of Justice does not hold data on offences. The offences covered by sections 42, 43 and 59 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 are not notifiable offences and therefore do not require the police to inform the Home Office for statistical purposes. The Home Office therefore are also not able to report on the number of crimes associated with these sections of the Act.

The Ministry of Justice has published data on the number of prosecutions and convictions for offences in England and Wales for the years 2013 to 2019. This data is available in the Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool available here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888344/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2019.xlsx

In the ‘Offence Code’ filter, select ‘81403’ in the drop-down menu to filter for the offence of non-compliance with section 44 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.

In the ‘Police Force Area’ filter, select the relevant police force areas required.

After doing the above, the number of convictions for non-compliance with section 44 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 between 2013-2018 can be seen in row 32 of the resulting pivot table.

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