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Maria Eagle: The available information relates to the offence of ‘use of a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks’. Tables A and B provide data on prosecutions, convictions (findings of guilt) and court
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imposed fines from 1997 to 2006 (latest available). Table C covers fixed penalty notices issued from 1 June 2003 to 2006. Data for 2007 will be available later this year.

Table A: Proceedings and findings of guilt at magistrates courts for the offence of using a motor vehicle uninsured against third party risks( 1) by police force area, England and Wales, 1997 to 2006
Number of offences
	1997		1998		1999		2000
Police force area	Total proceedings	Total findings of guilt	Total proceedings	Total findings of guilt	Total proceedings	Total findings of guilt	Total proceedings	Total findings of guilt
Avon and Somerset	15,354	9,424	16,892	9,875	15,098	9,357	14,609	9,515
Bedfordshire	4,724	2,951	4,449	2,992	3,479	2,328	3,594	2,307
Cambridgeshire	3,440	2,395	3,425	2,507	3,058	2,233	2,929	2,216
Cheshire	4,838	3,499	4,961	3,658	5,463	3,872	5,729	4,075
Cleveland	3,925	2,798	4,204	2,908	4,331	3,027	4,793	3,573
Cumbria	4,223	3,089	3,787	2,866	3,597	2,772	3,507	2,684
Derbyshire	5,565	3,830	5,137	3,522	5,120	3,613	5,318	3,914
Devon and Cornwall	8,422	4,967	7,232	4,263	7,493	4,681	9,234	5,872
Dorset	5,271	3,458	4,198	2,777	4,776	3,013	6,035	3,540
Durham	3,992	2,912	4,261	3,086	5,899	4,475	5,470	4,328
Essex	7,161	4,507	7,025	4,635	7,336	5,035	7,898	5,328
Gloucestershire	3,577	2,115	4,465	2,885	4,443	2,867	4,174	2,539
Greater Manchester	30,655	20,548	30,836	21,430	33,228	23,697	33,783	23,865
Hampshire	11,768	7,844	11,557	8,028	11,553	8,123	10,559	7,535
Hertfordshire	4,580	2,573	5,799	3,056	4,748	2,789	5,258	3,310
Humberside	4,408	3,479	4,279	3,501	4,894	3,920	5,024	4,043
Kent	6,935	4,755	6,958	4,808	6,151	4,232	9,033	6,408
Lancashire	20,334	11,577	18,794	11,198	18,111	10,800	18,354	10,981
Leicestershire	9,706	5,990	9,481	6,265	11,054	7,281	10,263	6,713
Lincolnshire	4,589	3,001	5,000	3,466	5,345	3,744	4,500	3,307
London, City of	2,671	1,382	3,127	1,431	2,521	1,141	1,738	776
Merseyside	10,896	8,435	9,747	7,694	8,932	6,920	10,054	7,708
Metropolitan Police	42,283	25,873	35,064	22,874	31,285	20,893	29,649	20,117
Norfolk	3,932	3,456	3,434	3,060	3,468	3,000	3,951	2,844
Northamptonshire	4,999	3,083	4,849	3,271	5,571	4,151	3,949	2,971
Northumbria	12,470	8,064	11,837	8,079	13,296	9,299	13,195	9,385
North Yorkshire	3,926	2,778	3,744	2,538	4,003	2,656	3,905	2,548
Nottinghamshire	8,078	6,149	8,726	6,658	7,957	6,156	7,748	6,034
South Yorkshire	11,228	7,346	11,553	7,831	11,763	8,424	12,690	8,871
Staffordshire	8,180	5,251	8,210	5,379	8,021	5,725	8,777	6,740
Suffolk	3,258	2,202	3,743	2,283	4,189	2,547	3,923	2,319
Surrey	4,942	2,439	3,908	2,051	4,436	2,278	4,941	2,571
Sussex	9,333	4,726	8,202	4,150	7,415	4,198	6,796	3,777
Thames Valley	11,887	6,258	11,948	6,311	13,543	7,291	12,816	7,426
Warwickshire	4,316	2,595	3,769	2,394	3,523	2,192	4,135	2,309
West Mercia	7,082	4,848	8,207	5,624	7,450	5,224	7,686	5,512
West Midlands	29,878	18,484	30,928	18,969	27,409	16,407	28,148	17,896
West Yorkshire	23,980	15,042	23,549	14,682	25,776	15,903	26,529	15,476
Wiltshire	3,463	2,311	4,820	2,712	4,708	2,558	4,901	2,620
Dyfed-Powys	3,079	1,953	2,852	1,952	3,017	2,044	3,072	2,073
Gwent	4,097	2,899	4,478	3,344	4,451	3,452	4,680	3,777
North Wales	4,859	3,280	4,452	3,309	4,102	3,097	3,697	2,839
South Wales	14,829	9,936	16,187	10,629	15,406	10,467	14,615	10,273
England and Wales	397,133	254,502	390,074	254,951	387,419	257,882	391,659	262,915

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