HC Deb 25 March 1999 vol 328 cc383-4W
Mr. Paul Marsden

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will revise police recording methods so that statistics on road traffic accidents involving horseriders and horses are separately collated; and if he will make a statement. [78224]

Ms Glenda Jackson

I have been asked to reply.

Following a review of data requirements in 1997–98, it was agreed that details of horseriders would be separately identified in the information which is recorded by the police on road injury accidents from 1999. Unridden horses and horse drawn vehicles will not be separately identified.