§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Transport if, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Leicester, East on 23 March on driving tests, he will make it his policy to procure information on the number of tests which those taking driving tests have previously failed; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThere are no plans at present to collect this information.
§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Transport what is the most serious accident recorded during a driving test in the most recent year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThe records of accidents on tests cannot be interpreted in this way. They provide only brief details of the type of accident and whether the examiner was injured.
Pursuant to my reply, of 23 March, I apologise for an error in the figure I gave for the number of accidents on test in the year October 1983-September 1984. The figure ought to have been 973. That is 0.05 per cent., or about 1 in 1,850 tests conducted. My mistake was in using the Metropolitan traffic area figure.