Fixed penalties quashed/withdrawn/cancelled

Summary

The Department of Infrastructure responded to a request for the number of fixed penalties quashed, withdrawn, or cancelled following a review process for 2016 and 2017. The authority disclosed the statistics recorded in financial years, covering the period from 2015/2016 through to 2017 to date.

Key Facts

• The request was received on 10 November 2017 and the response was issued on 23 November 2017.
• The Department of Infrastructure provided data on fixed penalties quashed, withdrawn, or cancelled.
• The data is recorded in financial years rather than calendar years.
• 744 tickets were quashed/withdrawn/cancelled in the 2015/2016 financial year.
• 813 tickets were quashed/withdrawn/cancelled in the 2016/2017 financial year.

Data Disclosed

• 2017-11-10
• 2017-11-23
• 2015/2016
• 744
• 2016/2017
• 813
• 2017 to date
• 652

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

Department of Infrastructure Sea Terminal Building, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2RF

FOI Reference No: IM109981I Request under The Freedom of Information Act 2015 (“The Act”)

Thank you for your online request dated 10th November 2017.

Your request (with clarification in blue italics)

Please provide the following: How many Fixed Penalties have been quashed/withdrawn/cancelled following submissions of the 'Request for Review' process. The period is for the last two years, 2016 and 2017. At the IOM Courts there is a DOI Form available titled ‘Request for a Review’ for the fixed penalty process.

Response to your request

The information you have requested is recorded in financial years and can be found in the table below:

Year Number of tickets quashed/withdrawn/cancelled 2015/2016 744 2016/2017 813 2017 to date 652

Your right to request a review

If you are unhappy with this response to your Freedom of Information request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response, by completing a complaint form and submitting it electronically to foi.doi@gov.im or by delivery/post to The FOI Co-ordinator, Department of Infrastructure, Sea Terminal Buildings, Douglas, IM1 2RF. An electronic version and paper version of our complaint form can be found by going to our website at www.gov.im/foireview

Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made as soon as practicable. We will respond as soon as the review has been concluded.

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1 Whether we have responded to your request for information in accordance with Part 2 of the Freedom of Information Act; or

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Yours sincerely

Freedom of Information Response Team