§ Mr. Iain Millsasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish figures for each year since 1979 relating to (i) the number of Ministry of Transport tests carried out on cars, (ii) the number of cars which failed the Ministry of Transport test, (iii) the number of cars which have failed the Ministry of Transport test partly or wholly as a result of having illegal tyres and (iv) the number of persons prosecuted for being in possession of a car with illegal tyres.
§ Mrs. Chalker[pursuant to her reply, 19 December 1984, c. 182]: The figures for MOT testing in (i) to (iii) of the following table are based on a 2 per cent. sample of all MOT tests. Details of prosecutions at (iv) are published by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department.