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Residence Orders

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many residence orders were made in respect of (a) men and (b) women in 2006. [168182]

Maria Eagle: 33,000 residence orders were given in 2006. Data to enable this figure to be separated between those granted to men and those granted to women is not recorded centrally.

Information to enable the gender of the successful party to be identified can be gathered only by reviewing court files or, for the county courts by reviewing the text of every individual order made and recorded on the court’s IT system. This would incur a disproportionate cost.

Road Traffic Offences: Fixed Penalties

Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what percentage of (a) fixed penalty notices and (b) penalty charge notices for motoring offences were paid in full within the 28 day deadline in each year since 1999. [168610]

Maria Eagle: Available information from 1999 to 2005 (the latest available) is provided in the following tables. 2006 data will be available next year.

Information contained in Table A relates to the number of motoring offences fixed penalty notices issued by result. Data are collected on the disposal (i.e. paid, fine registration certificate issued etc).

Data within Table B relates to penalty charge notices issued by result under the decriminalised parking enforcement scheme.

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Table A: Number and percentage of fixed penalty notices issued for motoring offences by resul( 1) , England and Wales, 1999 to 2005
Number (thousand) and percentage
		Total notices dealt with	Paid within 28 days	Payment accepted after 28 days	Sub-total paid	No further action taken	Fine registration certificate issued( 2)	Referred for court proceedings
1999(3)	Number	3,089,000	1,730,700	696,300	2,427,000	235,500	406,900	19,600
	Percentage	100	56	23	79	8	13	0.6
2000(3)	Number	2,984,300	1,718,600	672,000	2,390,600	208,000	370,800	14,900
	Percentage	100	58	23	80	7	12	0.5
2001(3)	Number	2,897,200	1,692,500	673,400	2,365,800	147,600	369,300	14,500
	Percentage	100	58	23	82	5	13	0.5
2002	Number	2,865,800	1,833,300	582,300	2,415,600	115,800	322,000	12,500
	Percentage	100	64	20	85	4	11	0.4
2003	Number	3,506,000	2,335,700	714,900	3,050,600	98,300	345,700	11,400
	Percentage	100	67	20	87	3	10	0.3
2004	Number	3,377,100	2,303,400	665,500	2,968,900	95,000	301,000	12,200
	Percentage	100	68	20	88	3	9	0.4
2005( 4)	Percentage	100	72	18	90	2	7	0.7
(1) Endorsable and non-endorsable notices combined. (2) Includes outcomes not finalised. (3) Revised since original publication following amendments received from Essex police force area. (4) The analysis of results of fixed penalty notices paid is not yet complete for 2005. The national percentages shown are estimates. 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 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.

Table B: Number and percentage of penalty charge notices by result, England and Wales( 1) , 1999 to 2005
Number (thousand) and percentage
		Total notices( 2) dealt with	Paid within 14 days	Paid after 14 days but before service of charge certificate	Paid after charge certificate served	Sub total paid	Cases going for adjudication	Number of certificates registered	No further( 3) action taken
1999	Number	3,327,700	1,575,200	421,800	9,600	2,006,600	40,400	563,600	717,100
	Percentage	100	47	13	0.3	60	1	17	22
2000	Number	3,512,900	1,753,200	446,300	26,800	2,226,200	35,200	617,800	633,500
	Percentage	100	50	13	1	63	1	18	18
2001	Number	4,844,200	2,386,200	579,200	130,100	3,095,600	34,900	938,700	775,000
	Percentage	100	49	12	3	64	1	19	16
2002	Number	6,296,300	2,792,800	731,500	180,700	3,705,000	69,200	1,213,400	1,308,700
	Percentage	100	44	12	3	59	1	19	21
2003	Number	6,745,500	3,255,800	820,900	220,200	4,296,900	53,300	1,033,800	1,361,500
	Percentage	100	48	12	3	64	1	15	20
2004	Number	7,340,800	3,676,300	1,086,900	195,200	4,958,300	64,500	1,048,300	1,269,700
	Percentage	100	50	15	3	68	1	14	17
2005	Number	6,967,600	3,717,500	823,000	265,100	4,805,700	53,300	1,027,800	1,080,700
	Percentage	100	53	12	4	69	1	15	16
(1) The first Welsh local authority joined the decriminalised parking scheme in 2004. (2) Each yearly figure excludes notices issued during the period that were still being processed and includes notices issued in a previous period but recorded as payment in a later year. (3) Where the PCN is written off, for example, the motorist cannot be traced or the PCN is cancelled due to procedural error or successful representation. 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 local authorities. 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.

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