HC Deb 22 October 2002 vol 391 cc176-80W
Malcolm Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many abandoned cars each local authority in England and Wales stated they had removed in their submissions to the Municipal Waste Survey 2000–01. [75174]

Mr. Meacher

[holding answer 21 October 2002]: Figures from the 2000–01 Municipal Waste Management Survey show that 288 local authorities in England and Wales, out of a total of 376, responded to the number of abandoned vehicles question in the Municipal Waste Management Survey 2000–01 in England and Wales. The authorities and the numbers of abandoned vehicles removed and destroyed reported are listed below:

Local Authority Number of Abandoned 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

Local Authority Number of Abandoned vehicles
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
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

Local Authority Number of Abandoned vehicles
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
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

Local Authority Number of Abandoned vehicles
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
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

Local Authority Number of Abandoned vehicles
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 Mailing 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

Note

A total of 238 thousand abandoned vehicles was estimated for England and Wales in 2000–01, which includes an estimation for the non-responding authorities.