Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fixed penalty notices have the police issued to people smoking in private vehicles in which children are present (a) in total and (b) in each year since this became an offence.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on fixed penalty notices (FPNs) and other outcomes for motoring offences in England and Wales on an annual basis, as part of the ‘Police powers and procedures: Roads policing’ statistical bulletin. The most recent data, up to 2023, is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-roads-policing-to-december-2023

However, data is not available on the specific offence of ‘Smoking in a vehicle in which a child was present’.