§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Minister of Transport if he will publish a table showing the number of licensed motor vehicles per 1,000 population for each of the counties of England and Wales, together with the average for England and for Wales, respectively.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe following are the figures for 1979:
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LICENSED MOTOR VEHICLES PER 1,000 POPULATION England 350 Cleveland 294 Cumbria 362 Durham 259 Northumberland 282 Tyne & Wear 233 Humberside 337 North Yorks 378 South Yorks 292 West Yorks 282 Derbyshire 278 Leicestershire 354 Lincolnshire 438 Northamptonshire 358 Nottinghamshire 342 Cambridgeshire 420 Norfolk 429 Suffolk 411 Bedfordshire 401 Berkshire 458 Buckinghamshire 387 East Sussex 367 Essex 379 Greater London 337 Hampshire 384 Hertfordshire 467 Isle of Wight 393 Kent 370 Oxfordshire 393 Surrey 428 West Sussex 406 Avon 391 Cornwall 414 Devon 385 Dorset 432 Gloucestershire 428 Somerset 438 Wiltshire 408 Hereford & Worces 405 Salop 403 Staffordshire 332 Warwickshire 327
West Midlands 340 Cheshire 326 Greater Manchester 281 Lancashire 356 Merseyside 269 Wales 325 Clwyd 346 Dyfed 392 Gwent 322 Gwynedd 370 Mid Glamorgan 243 Powys 437 South Glamorgan 328 West Glamorgan 304