FOI 180919

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 180919

I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 24^th June 2022. Please find below the response to your request:

I would be grateful if you could please provide the following information via email under the Freedom of Information Act:

1. Please state how many sites you have where there are fixed position cameras in operation for the detection of speeding motorists as of 1^st April 2022?

NB: If you have more than one camera at a site to detect speeding using average speeds across a set distance please count this as one site.

1. For each of the last five financial years (17/18), (18/19), (19/20), (20/21) and (21/22) please state how many notifications of an intended prosecution were issued by you for the fixed position speed cameras that you had in operation? 
2. For each of the last five financial years (17/18), (18/19), (19/20), (20/21) and (21/22) please state how many (a) fixed penalty notices were issued, and (b) speed awareness courses were carried out as a result of people being caught in the fixed position speed cameras that you had in operation?
3. In relation to the last financial year (21/22) which fixed position camera site was responsible for issuing the most notices of intended prosecution? Could you please state the position of the camera and the number of notices of intended prosecution issued.

Reply

1. Please state how many sites you have where there are fixed position cameras in operation for the detection of speeding motorists as of 1^st April 2022?

NB: If you have more than one camera at a site to detect speeding using average speeds across a set distance please count this as one site.

There were 25 fixed cameras as of 1^st April 2022.

For each of the last five financial years (17/18), (18/19), (19/20), (20/21) and (21/22) please state how many notifications of an intended prosecution were issued by you for the fixed position speed cameras that you had in operation? 

1. For each of the last five financial years (17/18), (18/19), (19/20), (20/21) and (21/22) please state how many (a) fixed penalty notices were issued, and (b) speed awareness courses were carried out as a result of people being caught in the fixed position speed cameras that you had in operation?

The total for each financial year includes those offences sent straight to court for exceeding the speed limit threshold for offering driver retraining/fixed penalty.

1. In relation to the last financial year (21/22) which fixed position camera site was responsible for issuing the most notices of intended prosecution? Could you please state the position of the camera and the number of notices of intended prosecution issued.

The cameras on the M5 motorway junctions 4a-6 have caused the most number of notices to be issued. There were 15062 notices issued for this site for offences between 01/04/2021 and 01/04/2022.