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Speed cameras raise £114 millions a year - with £22 million being siphoned off to the Treasury.
The amount of money collected from motorists caught by the roadside cameras has been discovered by the Conservatives under the Freedom of Information Act.
Whitehall has confirmed that in the financial year 2003-04, £114m was raised by speed cameras in the UK, of which £92m was spent on road safety campaigns and maintaining the speed cameras, with the remaining £22m surplus handed to Gordon Brown's Treasury.
And Shadow Transport Secretary Alan Duncan protested: "This provides yet more evidence that speed cameras are being used as a stealth tax to raise money from hard pressed motorists at a time of soaring fuel prices."
He said the public would be staggered to learn that it costs more than £90m a year to run Britain's speed cameras, fuelling suspicions that many of them are being used as cash raisers not life savers.
Mr Duncan said: "It is equally alarming to see that the Treasury is making more than £20m a year out of speed cameras. We think any money raised should be used to fund road safety campaigns, not to fill Gordon Brown's black hole."
The Conservative spokesman called for a root and branch re-examination of speed camera policy. "The entire regime for punishing people for speeding needs a complete review," he said.

We think any money raised should be used to fund road safety campaigns, not to fill Gordon Brown's black hole."