HC Deb 27 July 1988 vol 138 cc260-1W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each police authority for which he has authority the number of motor vehicles held by each, and the number that have been converted to run on unleaded petrol.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The total number of vehicles, excluding launches and aircraft, held by each force in England and Wales at 31 December 1987 was as follows:

Force Number of vehicles
Avon and Somerset 668
Bedfordshire 198
Cambridgeshire 283
Cheshire 428
City of London 68
Cleveland 217
Cumbria 283
Derbyshire 264
Devon and Cornwall 609
Dorset 236
Durham 278
Dyfed-Powys 197
Essex 578
Gloucestershire 254
Greater Manchester 1,138
Gwent 160
Hampshire 805
Hertfordshire 381
Humberside 409
Kent 715
Lancashire 520
Leicestershire 354
Lincolnshire 258
Merseyside 704
Norfolk 289
Northamptonshire 262
Northumbria 561
North Wales 295
North Yorkshire 325
Nottinghamshire 371
South Wales 564
South Yorkshire 520
Staffordshire 338
Suffolk 253
Surrey 342

Force Number of vehicles
Sussex 637
Warwickshire 222
West Mercia 510
West Midlands 1,057
West Yorkshire 937
Wiltshire 240
Metropolitan1 3,972
Total 21,700
1 As at 31 March 1988.

Records of police vehicles using unleaded fuel are not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.