Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) arrests, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions of (i) men and (ii) women in each Local Criminal Justice Board area for the offence of drink driving there have been in each year since 2010.

Driving offences can have very serious and sometimes devastating consequences for victims and their families. That is why the Government is reviewing driving offences and penalties.

The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts of offences related to drink driving in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 (latest available) can be viewed in the following tables:-

· Table 1 – males

· Table 2 - females

The arrests collection held by the Home Office covers arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, broken down at a main offence group level, covering categories such as violence against the person and robbery. The offence of drink driving is not a notifiable offence and does not form part of this collection.

Data by police force has been provided as we are not able to group results from the Crown Court by local criminal justice board. Additionally, due to changes in court structure we not able to group courts by local criminal justice board across the whole time-period.