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Mr. Morley
The question on how many abandoned vehicles removed by local authorities in England and Wales was most recently asked in the 2001–02 Municipal Waste Management Surveys for England and Wales. Data recorded by district show that 320 local authorities out of a total of 376, responded to the abandoned vehicles question. The authorities and the numbers of abandoned vehicles removed and destroyed reported are listed as follows:
| Authority |
Number of vehicles |
| Adur |
854 |
| Allerdale |
87 |
| Alnwick |
23 |
| Amber Valley |
243 |
| Ashfield |
641 |
| Ashford |
686 |
| Aylesbury Vale |
876 |
| Babergh |
718 |
| Barnet |
4,431 |
| Barnsley |
549 |
| Barrow-in-Furness |
83 |
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| Authority |
Number of vehicles |
| Basildon |
1,746 |
| Basingstoke and Deane |
985 |
| Bassetlaw |
348 |
| Bath and North East Somerset |
590 |
| Bedford |
1,455 |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed |
32 |
| Bexley |
1,776 |
| Birmingham |
5,257 |
| Blackburn with Darwen |
231 |
| Blackpool |
134 |
| Blaenau Gwent |
861 |
| Blyth Valley |
130 |
| Bolsover |
208 |
| Boston |
284 |
| Bournemouth |
1,420 |
| Bracknell Forest |
865 |
| Bradford |
1,607 |
| Braintree |
715 |
| Breckland |
307 |
| Brent |
4,115 |
| Brentwood |
500 |
| Bridgend |
540 |
| Bridgnorth |
49 |
| Brighton and Hove |
2,519 |
| Broadland |
196 |
| Bromley |
4,215 |
| Broxbourne |
544 |
| Broxtowe |
437 |
| Burnley |
105 |
| Caerphilly |
1,832 |
| Calderdale |
802 |
| Camden |
1,897 |
| Cannock Chase |
50 |
| Canterbury |
974 |
| Caradon |
317 |
| Cardiff |
590 |
| Carlisle |
232 |
| Carmarthenshire |
517 |
| Carrick |
242 |
| Castle Morpeth |
66 |
| Ceredigion |
182 |
| Charnwood |
256 |
| Chelmsford |
700 |
| Cheltenham |
648 |
| Cherwell |
705 |
| Chester |
365 |
| Chesterfield |
134 |
| Chester-le-Street |
18 |
| Chichester |
1,081 |
| Chiltern |
325 |
| Chorley |
274 |
| Christchurch |
156 |
| City of Bristol |
1,353 |
| City of Kingston-upon-Hull |
1,254 |
| City of London |
0 |
| Colchester |
579 |
| Congleton |
65 |
| Conwy |
310 |
| Copeland |
118 |
| Corby |
1,200 |
| Cotswold |
154 |
| County of Herefordshire |
460 |
| Coventry |
1,210 |
| Craven |
119 |
| Crawley |
1,037 |
| Croydon |
4,376 |
| Dacorum |
1,300 |
| Dartford |
706 |
| Daventry |
613 |
| Denbighshire |
286 |
| Derby |
996 |
| Derbyshire Dales |
73 |
| Derwentshire |
89 |
| Doncaster |
1,313 |
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| Authority |
Number of vehicles |
| Dover |
683 |
| Dudley |
272 |
| Ealing |
4,916 |
| Easington |
24 |
| East Cambridgeshire |
277 |
| East Dorset |
282 |
| East Hampshire |
311 |
| East Hertfordshire |
393 |
| East Lindsey |
359 |
| East Northamptonshire |
257 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire |
316 |
| East Staffordshire |
240 |
| Eastleigh |
225 |
| Eden |
35 |
| Enfield |
6,347 |
| Epsom and Ewell |
360 |
| Erewash |
324 |
| Exter |
1,317 |
| Fareham |
238 |
| Flintshire |
256 |
| Forest Heath |
680 |
| Forest of Dean |
360 |
| Fylde |
45 |
| Gateshead |
143 |
| Gedling |
838 |
| Gloucester |
896 |
| Gosport |
545 |
| Gravesham |
942 |
| Great Yarmouth |
400 |
| Greenwich |
4,200 |
| Guildford |
934 |
| Gwynedd |
873 |
| Hackney |
4,066 |
| Halton |
189 |
| Hambleton |
40 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham |
1,473 |
| Harborough |
480 |
| Haringey |
4,560 |
| Harlow |
1,310 |
| Harrogate |
262 |
| Harrow |
2,249 |
| Hart |
648 |
| Hartlepool |
87 |
| Hastings |
1,148 |
| Havant |
900 |
| Havering |
3,126 |
| Hertsmere |
650 |
| High Peak |
82 |
| Hillingdon |
3,128 |
| Hinckley and Bosworth |
429 |
| Horsham |
333 |
| Hounslow |
3,118 |
| Hyndburn |
128 |
| Ipswich |
1,327 |
| Isle of Anglesey |
81 |
| Isle of Wight |
345 |
| Isles of Scilly |
0 |
| Islington |
3,643 |
| Kennet |
146 |
| Kensington and Chelsea |
232 |
| Kerrier |
357 |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk |
457 |
| Kingston upon Thames |
2,159 |
| Kirklees |
310 |
| Lambeth |
3,775 |
| Lancaster |
124 |
| Leeds |
1,707 |
| Leicester |
1,434 |
| Leicestershire |
— |
| Lewisham |
4,671 |
| Lichfield |
— |
| Lincoln |
227 |
| Luton |
4,876 |
| Macclesfield |
141 |
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| Authority |
Number of vehicles |
| Maidstone |
1,386 |
| Manchester |
1,102 |
| Mansfield |
410 |
| Medway |
2,512 |
| Melton |
20 |
| Mendip |
396 |
| Menthyr Tydfil |
750 |
| Merton |
2,140 |
| Mid Bedfordshire |
620 |
| Mid Devon |
339 |
| Mid Suffolk |
205 |
| Mid Sussex |
370 |
| Middlesbrough |
470 |
| Milton Keynes |
1,987 |
| Mole Valley |
497 |
| Monmouthshire |
270 |
| Neath Port Talbot |
688 |
| New Forest |
1,246 |
| Newark and Sherwood |
246 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
389 |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme |
150 |
| Newham |
8,117 |
| North East Derbyshire |
84 |
| North East Lincolnshire |
327 |
| Newport |
1,040 |
| North Devon |
192 |
| North Hertfordshire |
587 |
| North Kesteven |
139 |
| North Lincolnshire |
192 |
| North Norfolk |
138 |
| North Shropshire |
134 |
| North Somerset |
884 |
| North Tyneside |
168 |
| North Warwickshire |
150 |
| North West |
326 |
| Northampton |
2,061 |
| Norwich |
590 |
| Nottingham |
1,066 |
| Oswestry |
56 |
| Oxford |
1,560 |
| Pembrokeshire |
723 |
| Pendle |
392 |
| Peterborough |
2,309 |
| Plymouth |
2,040 |
| Poole |
978 |
| Powys |
172 |
| Preston |
135 |
| Purbeck |
194 |
| Reading |
1,563 |
| Redbridge |
2,219 |
| Redditch |
519 |
| Reigate and Banstead |
558 |
| Restormel |
389 |
| Rhondda, Cynon, Taff |
1,052 |
| Ribble Valley |
35 |
| Richmond upon T hames |
1,201 |
| Richmondshire |
33 |
| Rossendale |
174 |
| Rother |
288 |
| Rotherham |
410 |
| Runnymede |
659 |
| Rushcliffe |
147 |
| Rushmoor |
571 |
| Rutland |
40 |
| Ryedale |
100 |
| Salisbury |
400 |
| Sandwell |
5,247 |
| Scarborough |
620 |
| Sedgefield |
90 |
| Sedgemoor |
619 |
| Sefton |
194 |
| Sevenoaks |
532 |
| Sheffield |
1,421 |
| Shepway |
859 |
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| Authority |
Number of vehicles |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham |
110 |
| Slough |
1,665 |
| Solihull |
341 |
| South Bedfordshire |
1,800 |
| South Buckinghamshire |
435 |
| South Cambridgeshire |
547 |
| South Derbyshire |
325 |
| South Gloucestershire |
1,185 |
| South Hams |
235 |
| South Holland |
175 |
| South Kesteven |
221 |
| South Lakeland |
403 |
| South Norfolk |
171 |
| South Oxfordshire |
441 |
| South Ribble |
36 |
| South Shropshire |
13 |
| South Somerset |
589 |
| South Staffordshire |
82 |
| South Tyneside |
420 |
| Southampton |
5,000 |
| Southend-on-Sea |
2,296 |
| Southwark |
2,848 |
| Spelthorne |
669 |
| St. Albans |
622 |
| St. Edmundsbury |
854 |
| St. Helens |
48 |
| Stafford |
73 |
| Staffordshire Morelands |
21 |
| Stevenage |
1,052 |
| Stockton-on-Tees |
64 |
| Stoke-on-Trent |
200 |
| Stratford-on-Avon |
73 |
| Stroud |
257 |
| Suffolk Coastal |
181 |
| Sunderland |
186 |
| Sutton |
2,166 |
| Swale |
976 |
| Swansea |
1,598 |
| Swindon |
1,300 |
| Thameside |
1,155 |
| Tandridge |
586 |
| Taunton Deane |
352 |
| Teesdale |
30 |
| Teignbridge |
1,591 |
| Tendring |
1,538 |
| Test Valley |
658 |
| Tewkesbury |
150 |
| Tanet |
1,271 |
| The Vale of Glamorgan |
299 |
| Three Rivers |
802 |
| Thurrock |
2,400 |
| Tonbridge and Mailing |
632 |
| Torbay |
648 |
| Torfaen |
856 |
| Tunbridge Wells |
695 |
| Tynedale |
28 |
| Uttlesford |
372 |
| Vale of White Horse |
386 |
| Waltham Forest |
3,466 |
| Wandsworth |
2,794 |
| Wansbeck |
165 |
| Warwick |
300 |
| Watford |
777 |
| Waveney |
339 |
| Waverley |
382 |
| Wealden |
637 |
| Wellingborough |
750 |
| Welwyn Hatfield |
887 |
| West Berkshire |
772 |
| West Devon |
85 |
| West Dorset |
528 |
| West Lancashire |
94 |
| West Oxfordshire |
346 |
| West Somerset |
79 |
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| Authority |
Number of vehicles |
| Westminister |
333 |
| Weymouth and Portland |
48 |
| Winchester |
246 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead |
490 |
| Wirral |
955 |
| Woking |
448 |
| Wokingham |
405 |
| Wolverhampton |
1,800 |
| Worcester |
464 |
| Wrexham |
385 |
| Wycombe |
1,169 |
| Wyre |
73 |
| Wyre Forest |
73 |
| York |
475 |