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	2001		2002		2003( 3)		2004
	Proceedings	Average fine (£)	Proceedings	Average fine (£)	Proceedings	Average fine (£)	Proceedings	Average fine (£)
Avon and Somerset	13,022	130	15,124	133	17,163	138	17,489	154
Bedfordshire	4,651	164	4,731	169	5,041	137	4,534	143
Cambridgeshire	2,508	119	2,875	118	3,301	131	3,120	152
Cheshire	4,975	149	5,765	153	6,385	167	6,515	179
Cleveland	4,789	167	5,994	173	5,575	171	6,597	189
Cumbria	3,595	152	3,540	151	3,488	159	3,446	169
Derbyshire	5,429	337	5,614	355	5,793	367	6,326	367
Devon and Cornwall	8,648	133	9,598	132	9,676	127	8,943	134
Dorset	5,262	121	6,176	114	7,034	125	6,075	158
Durham	5,394	118	5,840	122	5,802	121	5,300	116
Essex	7,708	101	7,811	104	7,489	112	7,132	164
Gloucestershire	4,683	91	4,417	86	4,412	133	3,695	147
Greater Manchester	37,088	152	36,337	151	38,208	157	34,942	167
Hampshire	10,349	119	10,912	122	10,619	124	9,750	131
Hertfordshire	5,816	155	6,612	166	7,216	181	7,463	198
Humberside	4,730	122	4,464	132	5,509	137	5,170	150
Kent	9,592	209	10,059	192	9,788	191	10,673	197
Lancashire	16,280	111	17,555	113	21,229	141	16,065	156
Leicestershire	10,475	134	10,699	135	11,304	138	10,833	150
Lincolnshire	4,083	133	4,242	134	5,883	148	6,621	179
London, City of	1,826	369	2,353	368	2,563	334	2,812	230
Merseyside	9,467	163	10,360	167	12,776	148	13,023	137
Metropolitan Police	32,032	139	36,485	140	43,100	143	47,806	147
Norfolk	4,744	99	5,563	107	6,322	139	5,084	152
Northamptonshire	2,028	280	1,211	339	4,157	245	5,804	183
Northumbria	12,504	130	12,309	135	12,951	135	11,685	137
North Yorkshire	3,545	130	3,340	136	3,774	141	4,065	166
Nottinghamshire	7,856	152	7,460	156	9,224	152	9,224	188
South Yorkshire	14,623	128	13,859	137	13,745	146	11,416	125
Staffordshire	6,027	152	7,056	163	7,214	166	7,439	186
Suffolk	4,123	128	4,759	138	5,808	133	5,718	136
Surrey	5,101	201	5,554	215	4,657	221	3,927	197
Sussex	6,814	118	6,413	117	5,808	138	4,371	162
Thames Valley	11,728	134	12,842	135	14,516	158	12,920	198
Warwickshire	4,204	156	3,711	168	3,756	164	4,160	210
West Mercia	7,787	176	7,849	180	7,735	165	7,249	193
West Midlands	27,010	169	32,339	192	36,409	200	39,696	206
West Yorkshire	27,618	120	24,873	123	26,966	134	32,404	144
Wiltshire	5,292	283	5,326	286	4,794	280	4,641	200
Dyfed-Powys	2,953	155	3,316	166	3,094	172	2,244	187
Gwent	4,758	148	4,508	154	4,083	171	3,474	157
North Wales	3,376	144	4,048	150	5,968	149	6,022	154
South Wales	13,805	159	16,499	173	16,932	158	15,946	154
England and Wales	388,298	150	410,398	155	447,267	160	441,819	169
(1) An offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 section 143 (2). (2) Magistrates courts data only. Fines given at the Crown court total nationally (England and Wales) less than 10 each year. (3) As from 1 June 2003, ‘driving a motor vehicle while uninsured against third party risks’ became a fixed penalty offence. 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 Ministry of Justice 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 limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

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