HC Deb 06 April 2000 vol 347 cc545-6W
Mr. Kidney

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list in rank order the figures for killed and seriously injured road casualties per 100,000 head of population by county and unitary authorities in England for the last five years. [116703]

Mr. Hill

The rates requested are shown for 1998, the most recent year for which figures are available, based on area boundaries at the beginning of that year. However, there have been a number of changes in administrative areas during the preceding four years. This would make it difficult to produce a comparison over time and such analysis would involve disproportionate time to provide.

Road accident casualties by county and unitary authority (UA): 1998
Rate per 100,000 population
County/unitary authority Killed or seriously injured
Redcar and Cleveland UA 36
City of Leicester UA 37
Greater Manchester 39
Berkshire 40
Stoke on Trent UA 40
South Gloucestershire UA 40
Tyne and Wear 41
Southampton UA 43
Luton UA 43
Middlesbrough UA 43
City of Bristol UA 44
Poole UA 45
Durham (excludes Darlington) 48
Bath and North East Somerset UA 48
Gloucestershire 48
Road accident casualties by country or unitary authority (UA): 1998
Rate per 100,000 population
County/unitary authority Killed or seriously injured
City of York UA 50
Swindon UA 51
Staffordshire (excludes Stoke on Trent) 51
North Somerset UA 51
Stockton on Tees UA 52
Milton Keynes UA 54
Merseyside 54
South Yorkshire 56
Devon 56
Oxfordshire 57
Suffolk 58
Bournemouth UA 58
Portsmouth UA 58
Darlington UA 58
Buckinghamshire (excludes Milton Keynes) 59
Hartlepool UA 59
Leicestershire (excludes Rutland and City of Leicester) 60
City of Derby UA 61
Brighton and Hove UA 61
West Yorkshire 64
Kingston upon Hull UA 69
Cornwall 71
Somerset 73
Northumberland 74
Isle of Wight UA 76
Hampshire (excludes Portsmouth and Southampton) 76
West Sussex 78
Kent 78
West Midlands 78
Essex 83
Wiltshire (excludes Swindon) 85
Derbyshire (excludes City of Derby) 86
Bedfordshire (excludes Luton) 86
Surrey 88
Lancashire 88
Dorset (excludes Poole and Bournemouth) 89
North East Lincolnshire UA 92
Norfolk 93
Greater London 96
Hereford and Worcester 97
East Riding of Yorkshire UA 97
Cambridgeshire 97
Shropshire 102
Cheshire 105
Nottinghamshire 108
Cumbria 109
North Lincolnshire UA 110
Hertfordshire 111
Northamptonshire 116
Rutland UA 120
East Sussex (excludes UA) 122
Warwickshire 125
Lincolnshire 126
North Yorkshire (excludes City of York) 165