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Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hit and run incidents led to an individual being convicted in each police force area in each of the last eight years. [104410]

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hit and run incidents have led to an individual being convicted in each of the last eight years, broken down by police force area. [102459]

Mr. McNulty: Information on the number of hit and run incidents that have led to court proceedings is not collected centrally.

Available information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform and given in the table shows the number of offenders found guilty at all courts for the offence of “failing to stop after an accident” under the Road Traffic Act 1988 s. 170 (4) from 1997 to 2004 (latest available). The data does not distinguish those offences which resulted in injury from those which resulted in damage or both.

2005 data will be available in 2007.

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Offenders found guilty at all courts for accident offences( 1) by police force area, England and Wales, 1997-2004( 2)
Number of persons
Forces	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Avon and Somerset	227	188	185	158	165	86	88	94
Bedfordshire	47	59	68	72	66	64	62	56
Cambridgeshire	78	76	79	71	50	58	69	79
Cheshire	136	158	168	181	150	175	197	181
Cleveland	62	51	48	40	35	46	45	46
Cumbria	100	66	77	84	84	83	98	93
Derbyshire	121	94	112	109	110	109	122	118
Devon and Cornwall	157	109	106	91	118	139	154	267
Dorset	112	97	71	68	80	57	87	58
Durham	43	48	60	37	62	58	56	52
Essex	232	248	222	274	276	295	302	295
Gloucestershire	62	79	64	63	78	72	84	63
Greater Manchester	444	447	469	442	470	465	423	486
Hampshire	188	176	182	177	188	195	200	168
Hertfordshire	126	108	101	127	108	136	144	122
Humberside	141	127	113	107	146	126	150	107
Kent	139	97	68	84	83	103	90	138
Lancashire	154	150	132	125	135	93	135	112
Leicestershire	124	95	104	94	108	79	105	99
Lincolnshire	64	47	59	47	67	67	73	74
London, City of	11	12	21	8	11	5	7	8
Merseyside	174	163	83	120	151	130	210	239
Metropolitan police	613	584	558	455	418	432	383	316
Norfolk	143	157	128	109	118	127	123	132
Northamptonshire	95	84	69	53	24	12	55	80
Northumbria	117	117	110	148	139	146	141	151
North Yorkshire	137	113	117	85	111	108	101	101
Nottinghamshire	151	165	124	142	130	127	142	125
South Yorkshire	153	153	152	184	197	169	197	170
Staffordshire	148	116	69	37	71	72	103	130
Suffolk	96	79	65	53	88	64	81	87
Surrey	56	65	134	91	104	75	84	57
Sussex	187	153	147	127	96	86	103	84
Thames Valley	167	135	142	114	170	174	144	164
Warwickshire	57	57	64	61	61	48	55	67
West Mercia	160	141	166	131	167	203	205	231
West Midlands	447	462	434	418	385	406	361	360
West Yorkshire	266	292	282	261	282	279	243	282
Wiltshire	67	71	53	59	81	73	66	75
Dyfed Powys	61	46	44	56	46	48	54	64
Gwent	57	72	56	63	53	46	46	38
North Wales	97	109	92	67	76	103	88	127
South Wales	157	172	154	150	136	152	161	179
Total	6,374	6,038	5,752	5,443	5,694	5,591	5,837	5,975
(1) Aiding, abetting, causing or permitting accident offences under the RTA88 s. 170(4). (2) These data are on the principal offence basis. Notes: 1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings, in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. Work is under way to ensure that the magistrates courts case management system currently being implemented by the Department for Constitutional Affairs reports all motoring offences to the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. This will enable more complete figures to be disseminated. 2. 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 these data are used.

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