About this site

Finemeter is independent. It is not a government service, and it is not affiliated with the DVLA, the DVSA, any police force, any court or any course provider. Nothing on it is official, and it deliberately does not look official.

This site describes a system. It cannot tell you what will happen in your case, and nothing on it is advice about your case. Where a decision is a court’s to make, the page says so rather than predicting it.

Two sources, and the difference between them is marked everywhere they appear. The first is legislation, read from the revised text published on legislation.gov.uk — principally the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988, the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, together with the statutory instruments that set the fixed penalty amount, the prescribed alcohol limits and the specified drug limits, and the Sentencing Act 2020 and the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 for the standard scale. Each of those figures carries its provision, a link to the Act or instrument, and the revision the text was read at.

The second is Sentencing Council guideline material — the speeding guideline and the explanatory material on the assessment of fines. Guidelines are official and courts must follow them unless satisfied it would be contrary to the interests of justice, but they are not legislation and they have no address on legislation.gov.uk. The speed-band table, the fine bands and the level maxima all come from there, and their source lines say so in different words from the statutory ones. Dressing a guideline in a statute’s furniture would overstate what the figure is.

A third category exists on exactly one topic and is fenced off wherever it appears: the speed awareness course, which is run by police forces and providers under UKROEd. Part of it is on the statute book — RTOA 1988 ss.90G–90I give the charging regime a statutory basis, and S.I. 2025/238 prescribes the qualifying courses and bars a repeat course inside the period it states. But neither the fee nor the speed thresholds that decide who is offered a place is fixed by legislation: those regulations deliberately introduce no standard fee and no ceiling, and the thresholds are force and NPCC guidance. The pages about it label each claim rather than saying so once at the bottom.

Where a figure does not exist in those sources, the site says so instead of supplying a plausible one. There are several such gaps and each is stated on the page it belongs to.

Every figure on this site has been transcribed from a named primary source, with a quote, a citation and a fetch date recorded against it, and every one of those records has been reconciled against the source it names. What has not happened is the last step: this site’s own sign-off sheet is not complete, so the reviewer of record — a person and not a process — has not signed the figures off. That is a precise statement of where the figures stand, rather than a disclaimer.

The distinction matters because the two failure modes are different. A figure with no source can be wrong in any direction and nobody would know. A sourced-but-unsigned figure has a paper trail: if it is wrong, the quote and the citation under it are what make that discoverable. Publishing while the sign-off is outstanding, and saying so in the notice on every page, is a more honest position than either waiting in silence or implying an approval that has not happened.

What it does not mean is that the prose is unfinished, that the numbers are estimates, or that anything here was generated without a source. Nothing on this site is an estimate. Where we could not source something, there is no number at all.

It does not look anything up. There is no lookup form on any page, and it never asks for a driving licence number, a National Insurance number, a notice reference or a date of birth. Where the official service is the answer — checking your own penalty points, paying a penalty — the relevant page names it and links straight out to it rather than interposing anything of its own.

It does not identify you either: its only measurement is Google Analytics running cookieless — no analytics cookie, no identifier stored, aggregated pings only, which is why there is no cookie banner. There is no advertising, no cross-site tracking, no account system and no form submission anywhere on it.

It does not answer for Northern Ireland, which runs a separate regime that is not among its sources; it does not predict what a court will do; and it does not give a figure it cannot cite, even where doing so would obviously be the more popular page.

This site is published openly and is indexable by search engines. It is not hidden, not private and not restricted — anything you can read here, anyone can. Publishing while the sign-off sheet is incomplete is a deliberate decision, made in the open, with that state stated in the notice on every page.