Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many motorists have taken speed awareness courses after being charged with speeding offences in each of the last there years.
The numbers of participants in speed awareness courses, which a driver may be awarded instead of a charge for a speeding offence, are published by the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS). NDORS’ website gives the details for attendance for the last three years (UK figures) as follows:
2014 1,185,860
2015 1,207,570
2016 1,188,961