To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road accidents involving one or more hit-and-run (a) drivers and (b) riders there were in each police force area in each year from 1997 to 2004; and how many (i) fatalities, (ii) serious injuries and (iii) other injuries resulted from those accidents. (104409)

Tables showing personal injury road accidents reported to the police involving one or more hit-and-run (a) drivers and (b) riders in each police force area in each year from 1997 to 2004; and the resulting (i) fatalities, (ii) serious injuries and (iii) slight injuries, have been placed in the Libraries of the House.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues in the Home Office on the provision of face-to-face support for road crash victims. (108718)

I have had a number of discussions recently with ministerial colleagues in the Home Office on matters of road safety and the role of the police in enforcing traffic law in support of road safety. We have not specifically discussed the support for road accident victims and their families.