To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what resources are being provided for the tackling of staged and induced motor accident fraud in (a) Preston, (b) Bolton West, (c) Ribble Valley, (d) Hazel Grove, (e) Blackburn, (f) Southampton, (g) Bradford South, (h) Blackpool, North and Fleetwood and (i) Salford constituencies. (144175)

This information is not held centrally. The Police Service in England and Wales has benefited from a significant increase in resources over a sustained period. On a like-for-like basis Government grant and central spending on services for the police will have increased from £6.2 billion in 1997-98 to £11.0 billion in 2007-08; an increase of nearly £4.8 billion or a cash increase of 77 per cent. (in real terms over 39 per cent.). Every police authority has received its fair share of resources. The use of these resources is an operational matter for each chief officer to determine in the light of local and competing priorities.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what figures he has for the number of incidences of staged and induced motor accident fraud in the last 12 months, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) constituency. (144176)

No figures are collected centrally in the recorded crime statistics.