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Mr. Speed
asked the Secretary of State for Transport what are the latest figures he has for the proportion of heavy lorries checked and found to be above the legal weight limits in Kent, Essex and Hampshire, respectively.
Mr. David Howell
The total number of heavy lorries checkweighed by my Department's traffic examiners in Kent, Essex and Hampshire in 1981 and which were prosecuted and/or prohibited from proceeding because overweight were as follows:
Checkweighed | Prosecuted and/or prohibited because overloaded | |
Kent | 3,187 | 606 |
Essex | 3,488 | 272 |
Hampshire | 1,310 | 222 |