HC Deb 13 July 1995 vol 263 cc694-6W
Ms Jowell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total amount spent on driver training by each police force area in England and Wales for each year since 1990. [33487]

Mr. Maclean

Information collected centrally is related to the number of days spent on all aspects of driver and traffic training, which includes training in matters such as traffic law, road safety, speed enforcement and accident investigation as well as driving courses. Details are set out in the table. Information about training costs is also given but is incomplete.

Total training days—driver and traffic training
Force 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93
Avon and Somerset 6,710 6,736 6,829
Bedfordshire 2,562 2,414 2,555
Cambridgeshire 587 1,074 2,053
Cheshire 3,547 1,843 1,429
City of London 952 697 706
Cleveland 2,259 743 618
Cumbria 1,496 1,383 1,416
Derbyshire 4,511 2,287 2,795
Devon and Cornwall 3,652 4,254 3,648
Dorset 1,524 1,804 1,603
Durham 2,135 2,643 2,136
Dyfed Powys 1,614 1,397 1,746
Essex 6,535 7,813 7,840
Gloucestershire 1,762 1,465 1,282
Greater Manchester 12,431 10,345 9,062
Gwent 1,513 1,291 n/a
Hampshire 3,944 3,407 n/a
Hertfordshire 3,698 2,160 3,260
Humberside 2,490 3,158
Kent 4,620 2,643 3,008
Lancashire 2,675 3,321 3,003
Leicestershire 2,270 3,011 2,521
Lincolnshire 1,617 1,675 1,562
Merseyside 5,504 6,608 3,601
Norfolk 2,652 2,406 1,887
Northamptonshire 2,466 2,389 2,130
Northumbria 5,178 4,410 4,535
North Wales 1,351 1,325 1,101
North Yorkshire 2,345 2,944 2,754
Nottinghamshire 4,030 3,151 2,477
South Wales 2,490 4,341 4,982
South Yorkshire 3,756 3,570 4,396
Staffordshire 4,677 4,982 3,936
Suffolk 1,715 2,115 1,916
Surrey 2,889 3,674
Sussex 4,465 6,843
Thames Valley 7,948 7,427 5,585
Warwickshire 1,153 1,678 969
West Mercia 2,236 3,375 4,014
West Midlands 13,016 9,980 10,777
West Yorkshire 4,532 4,304 4,920
Wiltshire 2,771 3,332 2,638
Metropolitan 28,149 31,783 33,886
Training costs—driver and traffic training
£
Force 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93
Avon and Somerset 1,494,009 1,321,638 1,453,522
Bedfordshire 590,523 677,496
Cambridgeshire 361.942 524,857
Cheshire 509,266 376,253 330,990
City of London
Cleveland 467,000 273,000
Cumbria 305,436 135,649 259,091
Derbyshire 929,463 577,794
Devon and Cornwall 655,897 855,765 877,513
Dorset 419,892
Durham
Dyfed Powys 263,400 231,600
Essex 1,964,589 1,300,000 2,007,391
Gloucestershire 350,784 293,538 276,670
Greater Manchester 1,251,773 1,207,188
Training costs—driver and traffic training
£
Force 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93
Gwent 287,498 209,866
Hampshire 858,621 1,114,196
Hertfordshire
Humberside 520,000 258,000
Kent 1,048,039 875,336 1,185,687
Lancashire 914,666
Leicestershire 253,713 405,623
Lincolnshire 474,400
Merseyside 1,594,039 1,827,821 1,413,639
Norfolk 571,500 519,700 453,800
Northamptonshire 441,661 431,128
Northumbria 968,752
North Wales 121,569
North Yorkshire 433,570 533,890 550,200
Nottinghamshire 710,292
South Wales 644,808 840,145 961.465
South Yorkshire
Staffordshire 441,759 1,137,897 535,668
Suffolk 553,462 448 456,012
Surrey 864,700 969,000 1,002,000
Sussex 503,000 805,912
Thames Valley 1,761,828 1,380,992
Warwickshire 166,314 788,718 249,693
West Mercia 596,616 725,905 897,038
West Midlands 3,020,332 3,226,004 2,989,280
West Yorkshire 1,674,900 1,493,900 1,561,300
Wiltshire 47,620 303,448 392,890
Metropolitan 4,546,817

Figures for 1993–94 and 1994–95 are not yet available.