To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 29 March 1999, Official Report, columns 467–68, on road accidents, if he will break down the number of road deaths in 1997 by borough council areas. [80002]

Information for all borough council areas is not readily available. However fatalities in 1997 by county and unitary authority are shown in Table 46a of "Road Accidents Great Britain 1997: The Casualty Report". A copy of this publication may be found in the House of Commons Library.