HC Deb 20 March 1980 vol 981 cc311-2W
Dr. Roger Thomas

asked the Minister of Transport if he will publish such statistical information as is available to him about the nationwide distribution of the orange badge disabled car sticker.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

At the last census in June 1976 there were some 220,000 orange badge holders in England, Scotland and Wales. The attached list shows how the badges were distributed.

CENSUS OF ORANGE BADGE HOLDERS: JUNE 1976
1. ENGLAND Total
(a) Shire Counties
Avon 4,716
Bedfordshire 1,928
Berkshire 3,333
Buckinghamshire 1,512
Cambridgeshire 2,194
Cheshire 3,409
Cleveland 1,479
Cornwall 2,041
Cumbria 2,159
Derbyshire 3,153

(a) Shire Counties Total
Devon 6,549
Dorset 4,605
Durham 2,294
East Sussex 3,918
Essex 6,961
Gloucestershire 4,207
Hampshire 5,976
Hereford and Worcester 2,905
Hertfordshire 3,867
Humberside 3,239
Isle of Wight 685
Kent 3,502
Lancashire 6,930
Leicestershire 4,199
Lincolnshire 2,228
Norfolk 3,347
Northamptonshire 1,780
Northumberland 961
North Yorkshire 3,382
Nottinghamshire 4,690
Oxfordshire 2,516
Salop 1,061
Somerset 2,203
Staffordshire 2,643
Suffolk 2,706
Surrey 8,079
Warwickshire 1,346
West Sussex 4,093
Wiltshire 2,328
Total 129,124

(b) Metropolitan Counties Total
Greater London 28,664
Greater Manchester 8,500
Merseyside 3,790
South Yorkshire 4,536
Tyne and Wear 3,545
West Midlands 8,762
West Yorkshire 7,754
Total 65,551
Total (England) 194,779

2. WALES
Clwdd 1,790
Dyfed 1,856
Gwent 1,448
Gwynedd 1,162
Powys 463
Mid Glamorgan 2,516
South Glamorgan 1,411
West Glamorgan 1,341
Total 11,987
Total (England and Wales) 206,766

3. SCOTLAND
Regional Councils
Borders 191
Central 502
Dumfries and Galloway 203
Fife 1,030
Grampian 820
Highland 404
Lothian 3,222
Orkneys 87
Shetlands 6
Strathclyde 4,061
Tayside 955
Total 11,481
Total (Great Britain) 218,247