§ 60. Sir A. M. SAMUELasked the Home Secretary the number of persons killed and injured, respectively, in Great Britain as a result of road accidents in September, 1932?
§ Sir J. GILMOURStatistics are not available for the country as a whole. In the Metropolitan Police district the number killed during September was 93, and the number injured was 4,638.
§ Sir A. M. SAMUELIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that I was informed last week by the Minister that the August figures were not then available, that is to say two months have elapsed without these figures being obtainable; and can he not arrange to have them published earlier, perhaps in the "Board of Trade Journal," periodically so that the public may know them?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe collection of the statistics for the Metropolitan area is comparatively simple but when you come into the country it is much more difficult, and to alter the present system would be costly.
§ Sir A. M. SAMUELIs it not the case that these returns have actually been drawn up by a certain organisation so that the statistics for England and Wales already published show that 530 people were killed in the August period; and does the Minister recognise that this association has no difficulty in getting together the necessary figures?
§ Lieut.-Colonel MOOREWill the right hon. Gentleman consider issuing instructions to enable pedestrians to avoid accidents and thereby reduce the number of deaths?