§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many child road casualties there have been in the last year for which figures are available in Stoke-on-Trent North; and if he will make a statement on progress towards meeting his 2010 target for reducing such casualties. [127071]
§ Mr. HillI have been asked to reply.
Data for Stoke-on-Trent North are not available. The number of child road casualties for Stoke-on-Trent Unitary Authority are given in the table:
Child (aged 0–15) road casualties by severity for Stoke-on-Trent: 1998 Severity of casualty Fatal 2 Serious 27 Slight 188 Total 217 The new road safety strategy "Tomorrow's roads—safer for everyone", published in March, sets out a range of measures to meet the target of halving the number of children killed or seriously injured in road accidents by 2010, compared with the average for 1994–98. Many of these measures are now being taken forward but it is too soon to quantify any casualty savings.