Driving: Disqualification

(asked on 7th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of convictions for driving whilst disqualified resulted in an immediate custodial sentence in each year since 2005; and how many people convicted of driving whilst disqualified who had been convicted of the same offence within the previous 10 years received an immediate custodial sentence in each of those years.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 27th July 2015

Information on sentencing and convictions from 2005-2014 for driving whilst disqualified can be viewed on the Ministry of Justice website and it is available at the following link:-

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014

Select and open ‘Motoring data tool: with criminal justice area’.

The table below shows the numbers of offenders sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified and the numbers sentenced to immediate custody for the same offence 2005-2014 in England and Wales.

Table 1: Number of offenders1 sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified by the number of previous immediate custody received for the same offence in England and Wales, 2005 to 2014

year

Number of offenders1

Previous immediate custody received2

2005

9,925

5,012

2006

7,543

3,839

2007

5,754

2,820

2008

4,705

2,109

2009

3,724

1,590

2010

2,652

1,134

2011

2,309

944

2012

2,030

807

2013

1,847

696

2014

1,654

638

Source:

Ministry of Justice, Police National Computer (PNC)

1. Figures are based on counting the number of occasions an offender was sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified in each year. An offender can appear more than once in the totals for each year if the offender was convicted on multiple occasions in a given year.

2. Number of previous immediate custody are counts of the number of separate occasions an offender has previously received an immediate custodial sentence and is calculated from the point of their latest conviction over the period.

3. All data have been taken from the MoJ extract of the Police National Computer. This includes details of all convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings given for recordable offences (see www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/schedule/made for definition).

4. These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and are subject to revision in future editions.

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