Written Question · S1W-17443 · Session 1
How many (a) fixed site and (b) mobile unit speed cameras it currently funds, calibrates and maintains, broken down by police force area; h…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) fixed site and (b) mobile unit speed cameras it currently funds, calibrates and maintains, broken down by police force area; how much it cost to fund, calibrate and maintain such cameras in 2000-01; how much was raised through fines by these cameras in this period and whether this money is retained by it or passed to HM Treasury.
The answer
The Scottish Executive is responsible for the maintenance for 94 Gatso and 45 loop or sub-surface sensor type speed camera sites on the trunk road network in the following police force areas:Central | 7 loop sites
Dumfries and Galloway | 13 sub-surface sensor sites
Grampian | 28 Gatso sites
Lothian and Borders | 45 Gatso sites
Northern | 10 loop sites
Tayside | 21 Gatso sites
| 15 loop sites.
The police have been supplied with cameras for both types of site. The Executive pays only for the maintenance of 21 cameras for Gatso sites held by Tayside, Grampian and Lothian & Borders police. The Executive does not meet the cost of maintaining any cameras for the sub-surface sensor sites.The cost paid by the Executive to maintain these cameras and sites in 2000-01 was £20,040. The cost of operating them is met by the police.In addition to these sites and cameras on the trunk road network, local authorities and police forces have cameras and camera sites on local roads.Figures are not held for fixed penalties and fine income generated by camera locations on the trunk road network alone. However, across Scotland in 1999, an estimated 51,000 police conditional offers were made for speeding offences which had been automatically detected, of which an estimated 83% were paid, (approximating to £1,705,000). Figures for 2000 are not yet available.Local authorities retain a 10% handling charge for fixed penalty notices, the remainder being remitted to the Treasury. In Glasgow, a pilot scheme allows the police and local authority to retain money raised through fixed penalties to fund additional enforcement activity.
Dumfries and Galloway | 13 sub-surface sensor sites
Grampian | 28 Gatso sites
Lothian and Borders | 45 Gatso sites
Northern | 10 loop sites
Tayside | 21 Gatso sites
| 15 loop sites.
The police have been supplied with cameras for both types of site. The Executive pays only for the maintenance of 21 cameras for Gatso sites held by Tayside, Grampian and Lothian & Borders police. The Executive does not meet the cost of maintaining any cameras for the sub-surface sensor sites.The cost paid by the Executive to maintain these cameras and sites in 2000-01 was £20,040. The cost of operating them is met by the police.In addition to these sites and cameras on the trunk road network, local authorities and police forces have cameras and camera sites on local roads.Figures are not held for fixed penalties and fine income generated by camera locations on the trunk road network alone. However, across Scotland in 1999, an estimated 51,000 police conditional offers were made for speeding offences which had been automatically detected, of which an estimated 83% were paid, (approximating to £1,705,000). Figures for 2000 are not yet available.Local authorities retain a 10% handling charge for fixed penalty notices, the remainder being remitted to the Treasury. In Glasgow, a pilot scheme allows the police and local authority to retain money raised through fixed penalties to fund additional enforcement activity.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-17443 by reference.