§ Mr. B. SMITHasked the Home Secretary whether he will lay upon the Table a Return showing the number of summonses for motoring offences issued on the application of the police in the year 1927 in respect of the Metropolitan police district and of each county and municipal police area, in England and Wales, classified under the headings of dangerous driving, failure to stop on request or after accident, exceeding the speed limit, ineffective brakes, insufficient silencers, obstruction, and other offences?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI regret that the information asked for is not available. The preparation of such a Return for 1927 would involve a considerable expenditure of time and money, but in view of the public interest in the matter, I am arranging for the collection 1587W for the second half of this year of figures of the kind indicated with a view to the presentation, as early in the New Year as possible, of a Return the exact contents of which will be settled later.