§ Mr. Nicholas BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list by police force the following infomation relating to the Christmas period of 1987(a) the number of breath tests, (b) the number of 353W breath tests which were positive, (c) the percentage of breath tests which were positive, (d) the number of personal road traffic injury accidents, and (e) the number of fatal road traffic accidents.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe information requested on breath tests is published in table 6 of Home Office "Statistical Bulletin" issue 23/88—"Statistics of breath tests, England and Wales 1987", a copy of which is in the Library. I understand from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport that the information requested on road accidents is as shown in the table.
Road accidents involving personal injury England and Wales, 19–31 December 1987 Number of accidents Police force area All accidents involving injury Fatal accidents Avon and Somerset 145 4 Bedfordshire 69 — Cambridgeshire 71 5 Cheshire 107 1 Cleveland 61 1 Cumbria 47 3 Derbyshire 94 2 Devon and Cornwall 178 1 Dorset 63 2 Durham 51 2 Essex 195 2 Gloucestershire 67 3 Greater Manchester 298 6 Hampshire 217 2 Hertfordshire 99 1 Humberside 118 3 Kent 162 5 Lancashire 152 9 Leicestershire 93 2 Lincolnshire 85 2 London, City 5 — Merseyside 187 5 Metropolitan 1,203 18 Norfolk 100 3 Northamptonshire 65 5 Northumbria 120 5 North Yorkshire 72 — Nottinghamshire 109 2 South Yorkshire 132 5 Staffordshire 125 — Suffolk 78 2 Surrey 125 2 Sussex 147 5 Thames Valley 207 6 Warwickshire 59 3 West Mercia 116 3 West Midlands 177 2 West Yorkshire 233 5 Wiltshire 72 2 Dyfed Powys 54 1 Gwent 33 — North Wales 72 — South Wales 129 2 England and Wales 5,992 132