What a speed awareness course costs
There is no national fee. The amount is set by the provider and the force that offered you the course, no primary source publishes a range for Great Britain, and the letter or booking page you were sent is the only authority on what yours costs.
The answer first
There is no national fee
Every page that quotes you one number for this is quoting a figure no primary source publishes.
However the question is asked — how much is a speed awareness course, what does one cost, what is the price — the answer is the same and it is not a number. The fee is set by the course provider, for the course you were offered, in the area the force that offered it operates. The amount is not fixed by legislation and not capped by legislation — the regulations that put the charging regime on a statutory footing deliberately introduced neither a standard fee nor a ceiling — and no primary source publishes a national figure or a national range for Great Britain. When our research pipeline went looking for one, the answer it came back with was, in as many words, that there isn’t one.
That is worth dwelling on for a second, because it is the difference between this page and most of the pages competing with it. A range like “somewhere in the high double figures” circulates widely and is probably in the right neighbourhood — but it is a secondary summary of scattered local prices, not something an authority publishes, and it was explicitly not confirmable against a primary source. Printing it here would rank this page. It would also mean quoting a number to someone who is about to spend money on the strength of it, which is precisely the thing this site does not do.
Deep resolution returned Unknown. Per-force figures are not shipped without a fresh, dated fetch.
Why it varies
What the fee actually depends on
Not on the speed, and not on any statutory scale — on who is running the course you were offered.
Two things drive the variation. The first is that providers set their own fees: the scheme’s own material says so, and it is the reason the price is not uniform across the country. The second is that a course is a service being delivered — a session, a venue or a platform, a trainer — rather than a penalty being levied, so its price behaves like the price of a service and not like a figure on a statutory scale. Nothing about your speed, your income or your driving history moves it.
Individual forces and providers do publish their own fees, and our research collected several. Every one of them was flagged at the verification stage: some could not be checked against the force’s own page at all, and others disagreed between runs. A few survived a deeper resolution pass. None is reproduced here, because a fee published at some point in the past is not evidence of a fee today, and this page will not turn a stale figure into an implied quote. That is an operator decision, recorded rather than quietly skipped, and it would be reversed by a fresh, dated fetch — not by an argument.
Speed awareness courses are run by police forces and course providers under UKROEd. Part of the scheme is on the statute book: RTOA 1988 ss.90G–90I put the charging regime on a statutory basis, and S.I. 2025/238 prescribes the qualifying courses and bars a repeat course inside the period it states. What no Act and no statutory instrument sets is the FEE or the speed thresholds that decide who is offered a place — those are force practice, and they vary by force. Each claim below carries the label our own research gave it, unchanged.
Not shipped this round — an operator decision, recorded rather than quietly skipped.
Instead of, not on top of
What the fee replaces
This is the comparison the question is really about, and it is the one place on this page where a citable figure exists.
Where a course is offered, completed and paid for, the fixed penalty and the penalty points that would otherwise have followed are not issued. The fee is therefore an alternative to that outcome rather than an addition to it — you are not paying the course provider and the penalty. Comparing the two is a fair thing to do, and it is why people search for the price in the first place.
The statutory side of that comparison is citable, and it is on the speeding page in full: the fixed penalty is £100 with 3 penalty points endorsed on the licence. The points are the part that outlasts the payment. They sit on the driving record, they count towards the totting-up threshold for a period, and they are the reason the comparison is not purely a matter of which number is smaller.
What this page cannot give you is the other half of the comparison as a number, because that half does not exist as a published figure. Your booking page has it. Everything else here is a description of a system.
What to do
How to find out what yours costs
- Read the letter, not a websiteThe offer names the provider and the force. Both appear on the letter, and both decide the price.
- Open the booking page named on itThe fee is shown at booking. That page is the authority; anything else — including this one — is a description of a system, not a price list.
- Compare it with the alternative, honestlyThe alternative is the statutory route, and its figures ARE citable. The speeding page works those through with the sources attached.
Why this page has no number on it