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Road Traffic Offences: Mobile Phones

Asked by Jim ShannonDemocratic Unionist PartyHome OfficeTabled Answered 4 February 2026UIN 108635

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (i) prosecutions and (ii) convictions there were for the use of a mobile phone while driving in each of the last five years.

Answered by Sarah Jones

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions and convictions for a wide range of criminal offences including using a mobile phone when driving in England and Wales within the Outcomes by Offences data tool.

This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics.

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