To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many accidents have occurred on the M8 motorway from the St. James intersection at Glasgow airport to Greenock, in each year since the section was opened.

The table provides the number of accidents from the M8 St. James intersection, Glasgow airport to Greenock on the M8, A8 (trunk) and A8 (principal) roads to Greenock, over the last five years 1985 to 1989 and to June 1990. Statistics for the motorway section are available only back to 1979. Statistics for the other sections of the route cannot be made available prior to 1985 except at disproportionate cost. Information prior to 1979 is not available.