HC Deb 17 January 1989 vol 145 cc137-8W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish information available on the number of motorists breathalysed by the Metropolitan police in the month of December and the proportion of those which were negative.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Provisional figures in respect of the Christmas and new year period (19 to 31 December) indicate that 10,937 motorists were required by the Metropolitan police to provide breath specimens. 980 (8.9 per cent.) of those tests produced positive results.

Full statistics of screening breath tests will be published later this year.

Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will request the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to have examined the equipment used by police to administer breathalyser tests to motorists leaving the rugby match at Twickenham on 6 December 1988.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

All breath testing instruments used by the Metropolitan police are checked at frequent and regular intervals.

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