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GM Armstrong
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FoI/14/01735
Date:
02/12/2014
Dear GM Armstrong
REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002 (FOISA)
Thank you for your request dated 3 November 2014 under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).
Your request
You asked for:
1 - The total amount of Grant funding provided individually to each of the Safety Camera Partnership organisations operating within Scotland, this is to include any new centralised organisation resulting from the formation of Police Scotland.
2 - Can you please provide details of the revenue received by each of the Safety Camera Partnership Organisation through the generation and receipt of fixed penalty notice fines.
3 - Can you confirm how many Notice of Intended Prosecution have been issued by each of the Organisations and of these how many were accepted and paid without challenge.
4 - Can you confirm how many NIP have been challenged and taken through the court process and the cost associated with this process.
Data is requested for each of the last three financial years and also this financial year to date.
Response to your request
I have addressed each of your questions below:
1 - The total amount of Grant funding provided individually to each of the Safety Camera Partnership organisations operating within Scotland, this is to include any new centralised organisation resulting from the formation of Police Scotland.
The table below shows the amount of grant funding allocated to each safety camera partnership in Scotland for the last three financial years.
Grant funding allocated by Safety Camera Partnership area
Year / Central / Dumfries & Galloway / Fife / Lothian & Borders / NESCAMP / Northern / Strathclyde / Tayside2014/15 / 267,100 / 353,529 / 338,698 / 860,370 / 535,726 / 261,689 / 923,890 / 439,970
2013/14 / 267,100 / 353,529 / 343,169 / 860,371 / 535,726 / 260,423 / 923,891 / 438,008
2012/13 / 262,630 / 372,773 / 349,254 / 1,006,293 / 596,418 / 264,394 / 1,054,748 / 447,516
2 - Can you please provide details of the revenue received by each of the Safety Camera Partnership Organisation through the generation and receipt of fixed penalty notice fines.
Fines paid for offences detected by safety cameras in Scotland are not retained by safety camera partnerships. All fine revenue is returned to HM Treasury.
3 - Can you confirm how many Notice of Intended Prosecution have been issued by each of the Organisations and of these how many were accepted and paid without challenge.
The tables below provide the number of Notices of Intended Prosecutions (NIPs) issued and the number of Conditional Offers of Fixed Penalty Notices (COFPN) paid in each safety camera partnership area for the last three financial years for which this information is available. It should be noted that direct comparisons cannot be made between NIPs issued and COFPN paid as there can be a time lag resulting in NIPs being issued in one financial year not being paid until the following financial year. Data is not available for 2013/14 as the requirement for safety camera partnerships to provide this data to the Scottish Safety Camera Programme was removed. Should you wish details of the number of NIPs issued and COFPN paid for 2013/14 you should contact the safety camera partnerships. Contact details for each of the safety camera partnerships can be found on the Transport Scotland website via the following link:
Notices of Intended Prosecutions issued by partnership area
Year / Central Scotland / Dumfries & Galloway / Fife / Lothian & Borders / NESCAMP / Northern / Strathclyde / Tayside2012/13 / 6,024 / 7,329 / 3,241 / 15,136 / 10,977 / 6,614 / 17,454 / 11,305
2011/12 / 7,338 / 8,551 / 3,591 / 18,375 / 12,007 / 6,335 / 16,088 / 11,780
2010/11 / 7,043 / 7,873 / 4,139 / 20,113 / 11,477 / 4,475 / 24,445 / 10,609
Data not held centrally for 2013/14.
Conditional Offers of Fixed penalty Notices Paid by partnership area
Year / Central Scotland / Dumfries & Galloway / Fife / Lothian & Borders / NESCAMP / Northern / Strathclyde / Tayside2012/13 / 4,520 / 5,119 / 2,554 / 11,036 / 6,124 / 5,819 / 12,205 / 7,369
2011/12 / 5,370 / 5,856 / 3,116 / 13,358 / 7,808 / 5,365 / 11,610 / 6,709
2010/11 / 5,571 / 5,091 / 3,557 / 14,136 / 6,924 / 3,649 / 16,714 / 6,369
Data not held centrally for 2013/14.
4 - Can you confirm how many NIP have been challenged and taken through the court process and the cost associated with this process.
Information regarding the number of NIPs that have been challenged and taken through the court process is not held centrally. You may wish to write to each safety camera partnership to request this information. Contact details for safety camera partnerships can be found on the Transport Scotland website via the following link:
Your right to request a review
If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response, by writing to David Middleton, Transport Scotland, Buchanan House, 58 Port Dundas Road, Glasgow, G40HF. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 40 working days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result, within 20 working days from the date when we receive your review request.
If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner. More detailed information on your rights is available on the Commissioner’s website at:
Yours sincerely
Debbie Wilson
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