§ Sir Clive Bossomasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what is the average number of parking meters for which a traffic warden is 264W responsible in each of the parking meter zones where these have been introduced;
(2) if he will state the number of traffic wardens employed by each local authority outside London.
§ Mr. Elystan MorganI do not have the information requested about traffic wardens who supervise parking meters.
The number of traffic wardens employed on 28th February last by provincial police authorities in England and Wales were:
Bedfordshire and Luton 40 Cheshire 73 Cumbria 10 Derby County and Borough 28 Devon and Cornwall 93 Dorset and Bournemouth 21 Durham 65 Dyfed Powys 13 Essex 61 Glamorgan 13 Gloucestershire 42 Gwynedd 34 Gwent 16 Hampshire 121 Hertfordshire 85 Kent 96 Lancashire 123 Leicestershire and Rutland 92 Lincolnshire 25 Mid-Anglia 42 Norfolk 50 Northampton and County 22 Northumberland 17 Nottinghamshire 50 Somerset and Bath 61 Staffordshire County and Stoke-on-Trent 32 Suffolk 32 Surrey 35 Sussex 144 Thames Valley 107 Warwickshire 22 West Mercia 46 West Midlands 60 West Yorkshire 84 Wiltshire 34 York and North East Yorkshire 21 Blackburn 10 Blackpool 26 Birmingham 103 Bolton 12 Bradford 39 Bristol 66 Cardiff 17 Coventry 12 Kingston-upon-Hull 69 Leeds 49 Liverpool and Bootle 162 Manchester and Salford 95 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 75 Preston 6 St. Helens 10 Sheffield and Rotherham 36 Southend-on-Sea 25 Swansea 13 Teesside 36 Tynemouth 6 Wigan 6