§ 55. Mr. Errollasked the Minister of Transport how many prosecutions have been brought during the past two years under the First Schedule of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, for infringements of the speed limits of 30, 20, 16, eight, five and three miles per hour imposed therein; and what recommendations have been made by his Department as to the technical means by which such maximum speeds should be checked.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydI am informed by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, that there were in 1951 3,074 prosecutions with respect to passenger vehicles and 30,981 with respect to goods vehicles for exceeding limits of speed. The comparative figures for 1952 are 3,697 and 30,027. No figures are available for locomotives and motor tractors. Records are not so kept as to enable prosecutions to be related to particular speed limits.
As regards the latter part of the question the enforcement of speed limits is a matter for the police, on which my Department does not give technical advice.