To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what have been the number of prosecutions of motorists for illegal driving in bus lanes during restricted hours in Greater London in each of the last three years.

The information requested is not separately identified in the motoring offences statistics collected centrally. However, I understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that 16,525 fixed penalties notices were issued by the Metropolitan police during 1990 for the offence of contravening a bus lane, a category which excludes parking offences.