§ Mr. David Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Transport how many detections of overloaded heavy goods vehicles entering the United Kingdom from Europe there have been in each of the last five years; and what monitoring procedures and checks are in operation to prevent this practice.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyGoods vehicles entering the United Kingdom are liable to be weighed at the port of entry or at inland weighbridge sites by the Department's traffic examiners or by local authority trading standards department staff.
The numbers of foreign registered goods vehicles weighed and found to be overloaded are as follows:
Number 1984–85 3,199 1985–86 2,794 1986–87 2,755 Earlier information is not readily available.