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Mr. Wigley
asked the Minister of Transport if he will publish a table showing the number of licensed motor vehicles per 1,000 population for each of the counties of England and Wales, together with the average for England and for Wales, respectively.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke
The following are the figures for 1979:
| LICENSED MOTOR VEHICLES PER 1,000 POPULATION | |
| England | 350 |
| Cleveland | 294 |
| Cumbria | 362 |
| Durham | 259 |
| Northumberland | 282 |
| Tyne & Wear | 233 |
| Humberside | 337 |
| North Yorks | 378 |
| South Yorks | 292 |
| West Yorks | 282 |
| Derbyshire | 278 |
| Leicestershire | 354 |
| Lincolnshire | 438 |
| Northamptonshire | 358 |
| Nottinghamshire | 342 |
| Cambridgeshire | 420 |
| Norfolk | 429 |
| Suffolk | 411 |
| Bedfordshire | 401 |
| Berkshire | 458 |
| Buckinghamshire | 387 |
| East Sussex | 367 |
| Essex | 379 |
| Greater London | 337 |
| Hampshire | 384 |
| Hertfordshire | 467 |
| Isle of Wight | 393 |
| Kent | 370 |
| Oxfordshire | 393 |
| Surrey | 428 |
| West Sussex | 406 |
| Avon | 391 |
| Cornwall | 414 |
| Devon | 385 |
| Dorset | 432 |
| Gloucestershire | 428 |
| Somerset | 438 |
| Wiltshire | 408 |
| Hereford & Worces | 405 |
| Salop | 403 |
| Staffordshire | 332 |
| Warwickshire | 327 |
| West Midlands | 340 |
| Cheshire | 326 |
| Greater Manchester | 281 |
| Lancashire | 356 |
| Merseyside | 269 |
| Wales | 325 |
| Clwyd | 346 |
| Dyfed | 392 |
| Gwent | 322 |
| Gwynedd | 370 |
| Mid Glamorgan | 243 |
| Powys | 437 |
| South Glamorgan | 328 |
| West Glamorgan | 304 |