Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in (a) England and (b) London have been (i) charged with and (ii) convicted of causing serious injury while dangerous driving in the each of last three years following the introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions and convictions for the driving offences listed in the questions, up to December 2020, in the ‘Principle offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code’ data tool, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987731/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2020.xlsx

79342

Select ‘80701’ in the offence code filter of the pivot table.

In the Police Force Area (PFA) filter:

• For London alone, select ‘City of London’ and ‘Metropolitan Police’
• For England alone, select all PFAs except for Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, North Wales and South Wales

The number of convictions will populate row 33.

79343

Select ‘00412’ in the offence code filter of the pivot table.

In the Police Force Area (PFA) filter:

• For London alone, select ‘City of London’ and ‘Metropolitan Police’
• For England alone, select all PFAs except for Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, North Wales and South Wales

The number of convictions will populate row 33.

The Home Office are responsible for collecting data on charges relating to crimes recorded by the Police. These can be found in the Home Office outcomes open data tables, available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables

79517

Select offence codes ‘00417’ and ‘00409’ in the offence code filter

In the Police Force Area (PFA) filter:

• For London alone, select ‘City of London’ and ‘Metropolitan Police’
• For England alone, select all PFAs except for Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, North Wales and South Wales

The number of prosecutions and convictions will populate rows 32 and 33 respectively.