§ Mr. David PorterTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been(a) charged with and (b) convicted of road traffic offences connected with the use of mobile car telephones.
§ Mr. John PattenThe available information relates to proceedings at magistrates courts for all offences of careless driving and so on and is published annually in "Offences relating to motor vehicles, England and Wales, Supplementary tables" (table 5 of the issue for 1987, the latest available). Information is not collected centrally about the circumstances of these alleged offences.