Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions for motoring offences were pursued by the police (a) overall and (b) in each police force area in each year since 2009.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on police recorded motoring offences and how they have been resolved by the police. These data are broken down by offences which led to a Fixed Penalty Notice and/or financial penalty; attend a driver retraining course; or face court action which may lead to prosecution. These statistics do not provide the outcome of those summoned to court and therefore do not provide the number of individuals prosecuted for motoring offences.

Data on prosecutions for motoring offences are held by the Ministry of Justice and are published in their quarterly ‘Criminal Justice Statistics’ bulletin. The Ministry of Justice has published data on the number of prosecutions for motoring offences, by Police Force Area, up to December 2017, and can be found here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733991/motoring-tool-2017-update.xlsx