To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many evening horse racing meetings took place during the last 12-month period when figures were available; and what estimate he has of the annual attendance at these evening meetings, and at all horserace meetings during that year.

There were 134 evening horserace meetings in 1990 attended by 654,302 racegoers. The total attendance for all horserace meetings in 1990 was 4,901,515.