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Identity Cards

Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the timetable is for introducing (a) identity cards and (b) biometric identity cards. [96406]

Joan Ryan: The Government plan to introduce biometric residence permits for foreign nationals from 2008. Identity cards incorporating biometric data for British citizens will be issued from 2009.

Laser Speed Meter

Mr. Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will submit the LTI20.20 laser speed meter for independent testing. [95953]

Mr. McNulty: The LTI 20.20 has been through the usual testing by an independent test house against specifications set and published by the Home Office scientific development branch. We have no plans for further independent testing.

Mr. Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions for speeding have been brought as a result of readings from (a) the LTI20.20 laser speed meter and (b) other laser speed meters in each year since 1995. [95985]

Mr. McNulty: Information held centrally on prosecutions for speeding offences detected by camera does not distinguish between the different types of camera used.

Motoring Offences

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drivers were prosecuted for driving without insurance in each police authority area in each year since 1997. [95450]

Mr. McNulty: Available information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, for the offence of “using a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks”, from 1997-2004 (latest available) is provided in the following table.

2005 data will be available early in 2007.

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Proceedings at magistrates courts for the offence of using a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks( 1) , England and Wales 1997-2004
Number of offences
Police force area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003( 2)	2004
Avon and Somerset	15,354	16,892	15,098	14,609	13,022	15,124	17,163	17,489
Bedfordshire	4,724	4,449	3,479	3,594	4,651	4,731	5,041	4,534
Cambridgeshire	3,440	3,425	3,058	2,929	2,508	2,875	3,301	3,120
Cheshire	4,838	4,961	5,463	5,729	4,975	5,765	6,385	6,515
Cleveland	3,925	4,204	4,331	4,793	4,789	5,994	5,575	6,597
Cumbria	4,223	3,787	3,597	3,507	3,595	3,540	3,488	3,446
Derbyshire	5,565	5,137	5,120	5,318	5,429	5,614	5,793	6,326
Devon and Cornwall	8,422	7,232	7,493	9,234	8,648	9,598	9,676	8,943
Dorset	5,271	4,198	4,776	6,035	5,262	6,176	7,034	6,075
Durham	3,992	4,261	5,899	5,470	5,394	5,840	5,802	5,300
Essex	7,161	7,025	7,336	7,898	7,708	7,811	7,489	7,132
Gloucestershire	3,577	4,465	4,443	4,174	4,683	4,417	4,412	3,695
Greater Manchester	30,655	30,836	33,228	33,783	37,088	36,337	38,208	34,942
Hampshire	11,768	11,557	11,553	10,559	10,349	10,912	10,619	9,750
Hertfordshire	4,580	5,799	4,748	5,258	5,816	6,612	7,216	7,463
Humberside	4,408	4,279	4,894	5,024	4,730	4,464	5,509	5,170
Kent	6,935	6,958	6,151	9,033	9,592	10,059	9,788	10,673
Lancashire	20,334	18,794	18,111	18,354	16,280	17,555	21,229	16,065
Leicestershire	9,706	9,481	11,054	10,263	10,475	10,699	11,304	10,833
Lincolnshire	4,589	5,000	5,345	4,500	4,083	4,242	5,883	6,621
London, City of	2,671	3,127	2,521	1,738	1,826	2,353	2,563	2,812
Merseyside	10,896	9,747	8,932	10,054	9,467	10,360	12,776	13,023
Metropolitan Police	42,283	35,064	31,285	29,649	32,032	36,485	43,100	47,806
Norfolk	3,932	3,434	3,468	3,951	4,744	5,563	6,322	5,084
Northamptonshire	4,999	4,849	5,571	3,949	2,028	1,211	4,157	5,804
Northumbria	12,470	11,837	13,296	13,195	12,504	12,309	12,951	11,685
North Yorkshire	3,926	3,744	4,003	3,905	3,545	3,340	3,774	4,065
Nottinghamshire	8,078	8,726	7,957	7,748	7,856	7,460	9,224	9,224
South Yorkshire	11,228	11,553	11,763	12,690	14,623	13,859	13,745	11,416
Staffordshire	8,180	8,210	8,021	8,777	6,027	7,056	7,214	7,439
Suffolk	3,258	3,743	4,189	3,923	4,123	4,759	5,808	5,718
Surrey	4,942	3,908	4,436	4,941	5,101	5,554	4,657	3,927
Sussex	9,333	8,202	7,415	6,796	6,814	6,413	5,808	4,371
Thames Valley	11,887	11,948	13,543	12,816	11,728	12,842	14,516	12,920
Warwickshire	4,316	3,769	3,523	4,135	4,204	3,711	3,756	4,160
West Mercia	7,082	8,207	7,450	7,686	7,787	7,849	7,735	7,249
West Midlands	29,878	30,928	27,409	28,148	27,010	32,339	36,409	39,696
West Yorkshire	23,980	23,549	25,776	26,529	27,618	24,873	26,966	32,404
Wiltshire	3,463	4,820	4,708	4,901	5,292	5,326	4,794	4,641
Dyfed-Powys	3,079	2,852	3,017	3,072	2,953	3,316	3,094	2,244
Gwent	4,097	4,478	4,451	4,680	4,758	4,508	4,083	3,474
North Wales	4,859	4,452	4,102	3,697	3,376	4,048	5,968	6,022
South Wales	14,829	16,187	15,406	14,615	13,805	16,499	16,932	15,946
England and Wales	397,133	390,074	387,419	391,659	388,298	410,398	447,267	441,819
(1) An offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 s. 143 (2). (2) As from 1 June 2003, “driving a motor vehicle while uninsured against third party risks” became a fixed penalty offence. 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 limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

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