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Migration

Mr. Pelling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of likely net migration into the United Kingdom in 2006. [45988]

John Healey: I have been asked to reply.


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The information requested falls within the responsibilities of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 9 October 2006:

Assumed net migration

Mid-2005 to Mid-2006

+195,000

Mid-2006 to Mid-2007

+170,000


Motoring Offences

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and (b) females were convicted of motoring offences in (i) Southend, (ii) Essex and (iii) England and Wales in 2005, broken down by offence. [89701]

Mr. Coaker: Since it takes several months for court proceedings data to be received by the Home Office, 2005 data on official police action will not be available until early 2007.

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many (a) males and (b) females committed offences in England and Wales under sections (i) 14 (3), (ii) 15(2) and (iii) 15(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 in 2005; [89703]

(2) how many (a) males and (b) females aged (i) 17 to 24, (ii) 25 to 30, (iii) 31 to 35, (iv) 36 to 40 and (v) over 40 years were (A) charged with and (B) convicted of (1) failing to comply with a road sign, (2) offences under sections (x) 14(3), (y) 15(2) and (z) 15(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, (3) failing to provide a breath specimen for analysis, (4) failing to stop for a police constable and (5) disobeying a police constable stopping traffic in (aa) Essex Police area and (bb) Southend Police area in 2005. [89704]

Mr. Coaker: Since it takes several months for court proceedings data to be received by the Home Office, 2005 data on official police action will not be available until early 2007. Information on drivers charged with motoring offences is not collected centrally. The information collected centrally on police action taken for motoring seat belt offences does not distinguish between the offence of driving/riding in a motor vehicle not wearing a seat belt (s14(3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (RTA)) and that of driving a motor vehicle with a child not wearing a seat belt (s15(2) and 15(4) RTA).

Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to ensure the law on driving whilst using a mobile phone is enforced. [89875]


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Mr. Coaker: Enforcement of this offence is an operational matter for the police. The likelihood of police detection is increased by the use of intercept teams linked to the expanded operation of Automatic Number Plate Recognition Systems. A clause in the Road Safety Bill currently before Parliament aims to increase penalties by making the offence subject to endorsement of three penalty points and a £60 fixed penalty.

Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions there were for driving whilst using a mobile phone in each police force area in the last year for which figures are available. [89877]

Mr. Coaker: Available information taken from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform for the year 2004 (latest available) is given in the following table. As the majority of ‘use of hand held mobile phone while driving’ offences are dealt with by the issue of a fixed penalty notice these are also included.

2005 data will be available early in 2007.


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Fixed penalty Notices issued and total court proceedings for the offence of use of hand held mobile phone while driving( 1) by police force area. England and Wales, 2004
Number of offences
Police force area Fixed penalty notices issued Total court proceedings( 2) Total dealt with

Avon and Somerset

1,902

19

1,921

Bedfordshire

579

5

584

Cambridgeshire

219

7

226

Cheshire

2,689

2

2,691

Cleveland

1,066

4

1,070

Cumbria

528

24

552

Derbyshire

978

17

995

Devon and Cornwall

796

19

815

Dorset

521

(3)—

521

Durham

504

1

505

Essex

2,431

28

2,459

Gloucestershire

632

1

633

Greater Manchester

8,166

73

8,239

Hampshire

2,032

18

2,050

Hertfordshire

2,526

6

2,532

Humberside

381

4

385

Kent

1,707

(3)—

1,707

Lancashire

1,719

17

1,736

Leicestershire

759

12

771

Lincolnshire

1,529

9

1,538

London, City of

137

7

144

Merseyside

1,836

22

1,858

Metropolitan Police

13,581

203

13,784

Norfolk

887

20

907

Northamptonshire

297

(3)—

297

Northumbria

1,271

32

1,303

North Yorkshire

720

18

738

Nottinghamshire

653

8

661

South Yorkshire

1,978

12

1,990

Staffordshire

264

11

275

Suffolk

978

7

985

Surrey

2,213

9

2,222

Sussex

546

1

547

Thames Valley

3,716

24

3,740

Warwickshire

621

7

628

West Mercia

2,200

17

2,217

West Midlands

3,864

61

3,925

West Yorkshire

2,368

11

2,379

Wiltshire

700

21

721

Dyfed Powys

363

13

376

Gwent

517

(3)—

517

North Wales

999

3

1,002

South Wales

1,603

16

1,619

England and Wales

73,976

789

74,765

(1) Offences under the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, Regulations 110 (1), 110 (2) and 110 (3). (2) Includes cases where fixed penalty notices were originally issued but not paid and subsequently referred to court. (3 )Nil prosecutions. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many fixed penalty notices have been issued for driving while using a hand-held mobile phone in each month since it became an offence; [90225]

(2) what the (a) maximum, (b) minimum and (c) average penalty imposed for driving while using a hand-held mobile phone has been in each month since it became an offence. [90226]

Mr. Coaker: Information on motoring offence fixed penalty notices is collected from police forces on a calendar year basis only. Totals for year 2003 and 2004 (latest available) are given in Table A.

Available information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform for 2003 to 2004 (latest available) showing maximum, minimum and average penalty imposed by month is given in Table B. 2005 data will be available early in 2007.

Table A: Fixed penalty notices data for the offence of use of hand held mobile phone while driving( 1) ; England and Wales 2003-04
Number of tickets

2003

(2,3)1,900

2004

(3)74,000

(1) Offences under the Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) Regulations 1986, Regulations 110 (1), 110 (2) and 110 (3).
(2) Introduced as from 1 December 2003.
(3) Only covers tickets paid where there is no further action.
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