KENT EVIDENCE · SELECTED PUBLIC FINDING
Kent recorded 2,483 failure to provide cases referred for summons in 2025.
NoticeReady analysis of Kent Police's disclosure shows a 116.3% increase compared with 2023. The measure concerns cases referred for summons, not convictions or MS90 endorsements.
The finding that matters
Kent's recorded failure to provide cases referred for summons more than doubled between 2023 and 2025. Its separately reported reminder count fell over the same period.
That contrast raises a useful question about what happens after a driver information request. It does not establish why the figures changed, whether enforcement policy changed, or whether fewer reminders caused more referrals.
Kent's recorded cases failing to provide driver information.
NoticeReady calculation using the same labelled annual referral measure, rounded to one decimal place.
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What the disclosure can and cannot tell us
Established
- Kent supplied annual figures labelled as cases failing to provide referred for summons.
- The 2025 figure was 2,483.
- NoticeReady calculates an increase of 116.3% compared with 2023.
- Kent identified an electronic response facility at its official camera portal.
Not established
- How many referrals resulted in conviction or MS90.
- The proportion of reminder recipients referred for summons.
- Whether the same people or cases appear in different annual measures.
- The cause of the change or a comparable ranking of police forces.
- Online availability in each earlier year.
Kent explains that generated driver information documents can include nominations, other correspondence, duplicate print runs, errors and cancelled documents. Reminders may cross with responses already received. Document totals must not be relabelled as unique drivers or confirmed nonresponders.
This disclosure is a separate series from Kent's published camera enforcement statistics. Their totals should not be substituted for one another without reconciling the scope and counting method.
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Source: Kent Police, FOI/01226/26/HR, response dated 2 September 2026 and accompanying appendix. The Traffic Process Unit collated the data on 18 August 2026. It is a snapshot and may change.
The percentage change is calculated as the difference between the 2025 and 2023 annual referral figures, divided by the 2023 figure, multiplied by 100 and rounded to one decimal place. This is a within force trend using the supplied labels, not a matched case study or national comparison.
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Official response route: Kent Police camera portal ↗. Use the instructions and identifiers on your own notice. The statutory information duty is set out in section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 ↗.
A specific finding, with the counting limits intact.
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