§ MR. MARKHAMI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department will he say the total number of deaths caused by motor-propelled vehicles in the United Kingdom during the first six or nine months of this year.
§ MR. GLADSTONEI am sorry that I cannot give those figures. The annual Report of the Registrar-General for England and Wales will contain the figures for those countries for 1907, and will probably be ready for publication about the end of this year; and, as my hon. friend the Under-Secretary stated last week, the police have been asked to furnish returns for the period from May to December, 1908, inclusive, of all accidents in streets, roads or public places which have come to their knowledge, caused by motor or horse-drawn vehicles respectively, resulting in death or personal injury.
§ MR. MARKHAMAre not reports on all fatal accidents forwarded to the Home Office?
§ MR. GLADSTONEwas understood to reply in the negative.
§ MR. MACKARNESS (Berkshire, Newbury)Cannot the right hon. Gentleman give the number of cases in the first six months of this year?
§ MR. GLADSTONEWe are getting the figures in pursuance of a promise given to this House.