§ Mr. GardinerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, for each police force area in England and Wales, the number of drivers given the breath test, and the percentage where the test proved positive, in respect of(a) the 1988 Christmas period and (b) Christmas 1987.
§ Mr. John PattenInformation on screening breath tests required and results by police force area for 1987 was published in Home Office statistical bulletin 23/88, "Statistics of Breath Tests, England and Wales", copies of which arc in the Library. The official statistics for 1988 will be published later this year.
202WThe Association of Chief Police Officers has, however, collected provisional figures for the number of screening breath tests required, and the number of positive results, in each police force area between 19 December 1988 and 1 January 1989. These are given in the following table:
Police Force Area Number of Breath Tests Per cent. positive Avon and Somerset 499 22.6 Bedfordshire 361 12.5 Cambridgeshire 1,919 2.4 Cheshire 415 22.4 City of London 189 7.9 Cleveland 321 15.9 Cumbria 414 10.9 Derbyshire 1,041 7.5 Devon and Cornwall 1,284 17.9 Dorset 665 8.6 Durham 172 41.9 Dyfed-Powys 139 32.4 Essex 1,640 9.1 Gloucestershire 265 18.9 Greater Manchester 4,980 8.5 Gwent 1,529 3.8 Hampshire 1,026 16.6 Hertfordshire 544 15.4 Humberside 784 10.3 Kent 641 20.3 Lancashire 1,293 10.8 Leicestershire 886 8.9 Lincolnshire 841 7.4 Merseyside 370 36.5 Metropolitan 10,937 8.9 Norfolk 2,942 1.1 Northamptonshire 772 5.8 Northumbria 217 63.1 North Wales 1,540 5.9 North Yorkshire 470 15.1 Nottinghamshire 3,214 3.1 South Wales 351 30.8 South Yorkshire 1,012 11.9 Staffordshire 812 14.9 Suffolk 406 10.6 Surrey 757 10.0 Sussex 941 8.6 Thames Valley 2,850 7.5 Warwickshire 396 11.6 West Mercia 616 19.6 West Midlands 1,249 20.7 West Yorkshire 422 43.1 Wiltshire 548 13.3 TOTAL 41,706 10.26