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Ms Walley
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list for each of the last five years the number of serious injuries and fatalities sustained on the River Thames. [36683]
Mr. Norris
Figures for the central area of the Thames, between Staines and Dartford creek are as follows1:
| 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | |
| Bodies recovered | 43 | 44 | 51 | 46 | 43 |
| Accidents where ambulance called | 14 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 12 |
| Persons rescued from the river | 568 | 855 | 119 | 120 | 175 |
| Attempted suicides | 44 | 60 | 64 | 102 | 111 |
| 1 Figures provided by Thames division, Metropolitan police. | |||||