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Driving Offences

Volume 461: debated on Monday 18 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many roadside enforcement checks dealing with (a) speed, (b) drink driving, (c) driving under the influence of drugs, (d) use of seat belts and child restraints, (e) mobile telephone use and (f) vehicle safety have taken place in each police force area in the last 12 months. (142963)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the driving population has been stopped by the police for a roadside check to deal with (a) speed, (b) drink driving, (c) driving under the influence of drugs, (d) use of seat belts and child restraints, (e) mobile telephone use and (f) vehicle safety in the last 12 months. (142964)

Information on the number and purposes of vehicle stops carried out by the police is not collected centrally. Information on the number of screening breath tests carried out by the police and on the number of motoring offences detected is contained in the annual publication "Motoring Offences and Breath Test Statistics, England and Wales" available in the Library and at:

www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pubsstatistical.html