asked the Secretary of State for Transport whether he will take steps to obtain adequate statistics regarding road accidents involving learner drivers.

A Steering Group on Reporting of Road Accidents, comprised of representatives of the police, local authorities and central government, spent two years reviwing the information to be collected on the report form. The group judged that this information could not be collected reliably and did not therefore include it on the revised form which is to be introduced by some police forces in January 1978.