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Alun Michael
As indicated in the reply on 22 October 2002,Official Report, column 176W, to the hon. Member for Gordon (Malcolm Bruce), the question on abandoned vehicles was asked for the first time in the 2000–01 Municipal Waste Management Survey. Figures from the survey show that 288 local authorities in England and Wales, out of a total of 376, responded
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to the number of abandoned vehicles question. The authorities and the numbers of abandoned vehicles removed and destroyed reported are listed as follows:
| Authority |
No. of vehicles |
| Adur |
793 |
| Alnwick |
54 |
| Amber Valley |
147 |
| Arun |
590 |
| Ashford |
612 |
| Aylesbury Vale |
507 |
| Babergh |
391 |
| Barking and Dagenham |
2,761 |
| Barnet |
3,287 |
| Barnsley |
248 |
| Basildon |
1,529 |
| Basingstoke and Deane |
780 |
| Bassetlaw |
92 |
| Bath and NE Somerset |
796 |
| Bedford |
876 |
| Bexley |
1,356 |
| Birmingham |
5,466 |
| Blaby |
113 |
| Blaenau Gwent |
960 |
| Blyth Valley |
110 |
| Bolsover |
249 |
| Boston |
65 |
| Bournemouth |
878 |
| Bracknell Forest |
707 |
| Bradford |
2,600 |
| Braintree |
554 |
| Breckland |
238 |
| Brent |
3,471 |
| Brentwood |
400 |
| Bridgnorth |
37 |
| Brighton and Hove |
4,000 |
| Bromley |
3,895 |
| Bromsgrove |
119 |
| Broxbourne |
1,393 |
| Broxtowe |
171 |
| Caerphilly |
1,800 |
| Calderdale |
441 |
| Cambridge |
261 |
| Camden |
1,629 |
| Cannock Chase |
30 |
| Canterbury |
809 |
| Caradon |
108 |
| Carmarthenshire |
120 |
| Carrick |
174 |
| Castle Point |
450 |
| Ceredigion |
150 |
| Charnwood |
153 |
| Chelmsford |
800 |
| Chesterfield |
45 |
| Chester-le-Street |
18 |
| Chichester |
600 |
| Chiltern |
195 |
| Christchurch |
73 |
| City of Bristol |
2,590 |
| City of Kingston-upon-Hull |
717 |
| City of London |
0 |
| Colchester |
319 |
| Conwy |
250 |
| Corby |
504 |
| Cotswold |
67 |
| County of Herefordshire |
368 |
| Craven |
0 |
| Crawley |
1,145 |
| Croydon |
2,878 |
| Dacorum |
1,150 |
| Darlington |
98 |
| Dartford |
483 |
| Daventry |
388 |
| Derby |
579 |
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| Authority |
No. of vehicles |
| Derbyshire Dales |
40 |
| Derwentside |
15 |
| Doncaster |
410 |
| Dover |
469 |
| Dudley |
234 |
| Durham City |
39 |
| Ealing |
3,754 |
| Easington |
14 |
| East Cambridgeshire |
330 |
| East Devon |
288 |
| East Dorset |
279 |
| East Hampshire |
209 |
| East Hertfordshire |
355 |
| East Lindsey |
226 |
| East Northamptonshire |
191 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire |
227 |
| East Staffordshire |
164 |
| Eastbourne |
631 |
| Eastleigh |
200 |
| Enfield |
4,711 |
| Epping Forest |
1,838 |
| Epsom and Ewell |
360 |
| Erewash |
270 |
| Fenland |
176 |
| Flintshire |
100 |
| Forest Heath |
145 |
| Forest of Dean |
186 |
| Gateshead |
149 |
| Gloucester |
700 |
| Gosport |
496 |
| Gravesham |
884 |
| Great Yarmouth |
255 |
| Greenwich |
3,120 |
| Guildford |
724 |
| Gwynedd |
619 |
| Hackney |
2,700 |
| Hambleton |
96 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham |
1,430 |
| Harborough |
550 |
| Haringey |
6,500 |
| Harlow |
1,240 |
| Harrogate |
143 |
| Harrow |
1,914 |
| Hart |
256 |
| Hartlepool |
55 |
| Hastings |
1,100 |
| Havant |
897 |
| Havering |
1,250 |
| Hertsmere |
534 |
| High Peak |
87 |
| Hillingdon |
2,286 |
| Hinckley and Bosworth |
353 |
| Horsham |
173 |
| Hounslow |
2,247 |
| Ipswich |
785 |
| Isles of Scilly |
0 |
| Islington |
2,619 |
| Kennet |
54 |
| Kensington and Chelsea |
195 |
| Kerrier |
232 |
| Kettering |
350 |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk |
271 |
| Kingston upon Thames |
739 |
| Kirklees |
287 |
| Lambeth |
3,308 |
| Leeds |
877 |
| Leicester |
1,416 |
| Lewes |
470 |
| Lewisham |
5,000 |
| Lichfield |
271 |
| Lincoln |
136 |
| Luton |
2,403 |
| Maidstone |
1,015 |
| Mansfield |
650 |
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| Authority |
No. of vehicles |
| Medway |
1,157 |
| Melton |
30 |
| Mendip |
250 |
| Merthyr Tydfil |
482 |
| Merton |
1,683 |
| Mid Bedfordshire |
584 |
| Mid Devon |
376 |
| Mid Suffolk |
145 |
| Mid Sussex |
347 |
| Mole Valley |
621 |
| Monmouthshire |
244 |
| New Forest |
474 |
| Newark and Sherwood |
289 |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme |
150 |
| Newham |
6,704 |
| Newport |
789 |
| North Cornwall |
266 |
| North Devon |
33 |
| North Dorset |
60 |
| North East Derbyshire |
70 |
| North East Lincolnshire |
267 |
| North Hertfordshire |
332 |
| North Kesteven |
101 |
| North Lincolnshire |
135 |
| North Norfolk |
66 |
| North Somerset |
570 |
| North Tyneside |
451 |
| North Warwickshire |
133 |
| North West Leicestershire |
267 |
| Northampton |
1,682 |
| Norwich |
351 |
| Nottingham |
586 |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth |
183 |
| Oadby and Wigston |
58 |
| Oswestry |
129 |
| Oxford |
1,455 |
| Pembrokeshire |
487 |
| Plymouth |
1,779 |
| Poole |
649 |
| Portsmouth |
826 |
| Powys |
606 |
| Purbeck |
89 |
| Reading |
1,090 |
| Redbridge |
1,562 |
| Reigate and Banstead |
718 |
| Restormel |
266 |
| Richmond upon Thames |
1,201 |
| Richmondshire |
9 |
| Rother |
336 |
| Rotherham |
150 |
| Runnymede |
609 |
| Rushcliffe |
181 |
| Rushmoor |
375 |
| Rutland |
100 |
| Ryedale |
45 |
| Salisbury |
354 |
| Sandwell |
6,639 |
| Scarborough |
543 |
| Sedgefield |
80 |
| Sedgemoor |
377 |
| Selby |
120 |
| Sevenoaks |
498 |
| Sheffield |
100 |
| Shepway |
733 |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham |
86 |
| Slough |
669 |
| Solihull |
275 |
| South Bedfordshire |
500 |
| South Cambridgeshire |
100 |
| South Derbyshire |
154 |
| South Gloucestershire |
987 |
| South Kesteven |
148 |
| South Norfolk |
116 |
| South Northamptonshire |
140 |
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| Authority |
No. of vehicles |
| South Oxfordshire |
418 |
| South Shropshire |
7 |
| South Somerset |
356 |
| South Staffordshire |
48 |
| South Tyneside |
415 |
| Southampton |
1,132 |
| Southend-on-Sea |
1,132 |
| Southwark |
1,934 |
| Spelthorne |
596 |
| St. Albans |
486 |
| St. Edmundsbury |
760 |
| Stafford |
37 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands |
26 |
| Stevenage |
598 |
| Stockton-on-Tees |
39 |
| Stoke-on-Trent |
250 |
| Stratford-on-Avon |
43 |
| Stroud |
51 |
| Suffolk Coastal |
165 |
| Sunderland |
197 |
| Surrey Heath |
226 |
| Sutton |
1,651 |
| Swale |
738 |
| Swindon |
440 |
| Tamworth |
60 |
| Tandridge |
500 |
| Taunton Deane |
248 |
| Teesdale |
17 |
| Teignbridge |
741 |
| Telford and Wrekin |
1,332 |
| Tendring |
835 |
| Test Valley |
406 |
| Tewkesbury |
115 |
| Thanet |
950 |
| The Vale of Glamorgan |
264 |
| Three Rivers |
351 |
| Tonbridge and Malling |
557 |
| Torbay |
354 |
| Torfaen |
668 |
| Torridge |
111 |
| Tunbridge Wells |
688 |
| Tynedale |
29 |
| Uttlesford |
250 |
| Vale of White Horse |
464 |
| Walsall |
976 |
| Waltham Forest |
2,716 |
| Wandsworth |
2,571 |
| Warwick |
137 |
| Watford |
822 |
| Waveney |
115 |
| Waverley |
343 |
| Wealden |
483 |
| Wear Valley |
40 |
| Wellingborough |
290 |
| Welwyn Hatfield |
1,000 |
| West Berkshire |
697 |
| West Dorset |
232 |
| West Oxfordshire |
290 |
| West Somerset |
64 |
| West Wiltshire |
113 |
| Westminster |
496 |
| Weymouth and Portland |
85 |
| Winchester |
263 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead |
488 |
| Woking |
352 |
| Wolverhampton |
381 |
| Worcester |
316 |
| Worthing |
310 |
| Wrexham |
231 |
| Wychavon |
90 |
| Wycombe |
1,155 |
275WA total of 238,000 abandoned vehicles were estimated for England and Wales in 2000–01, which includes an estimation for the non-responding authorities.