§ Mr. LewisTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in theOfficial Report (a) the total number of breath tests conducted by each of the police forces in England and Wales during the period covering the recent festive season and (b) the number which proved positive.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe official breath test statistics for 1990 will not be available until later this year. The Association of Chief Police Officers has, however, collected provisional figures for the number of screening breath tests, along with the positive results, carried out in each police force area between 19 December 1990 and 1 January 1991. These are given in the table:
Police force area Number of breath tests Total positive breath tests Avon and Somerset 754 113 Bedfordshire 962 54 Cambridgeshire 1,600 47 Cheshire 1,032 106 City of London 98 10 Cleveland 794 52 Cumbria 611 56 Derbyshire 818 67 Devon and Cornwall 1,830 152 Dorset 527 47 Durham 750 72 Dyfed Powys 612 52 Essex 3,107 148 Gloucestershire 383 59 Greater Manchester 5,799 425 Gwent 1,319 53 Hampshire 1,762 164 Hertfordshire 613 74 Humberside 1,168 95 Kent 2,101 134 Lancashire 1,764 131 Leicestershire 1,413 86 Lincolnshire 1,294 50 Merseyside 697 149 Metropolitan Police 18,075 838 Norfolk 2,992 53 Northamptonshire 1,097 50 Northumbria 470 157 North Wales 2,235 87 North Yorkshire 925 60 Nottinghamshire 3,462 114 South Wales 1,395 150 South Yorkshire 1,271 133 Staffordshire 947 98 Suffolk 1,235 51 Surrey 1,411 81 Sussex 1,100 95 Thames Valley 4,620 199 Warwickshire 527 50 West Mercia 891 100 West Midlands 2,254 304 West Yorkshire 1,493 230 Wiltshire 975 60 Total 79,183 5,297