To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many abandoned vehicles were recorded in England in each year since 1997. (286451)

The numbers of abandoned vehicles reported by local authorities in England to DEFRA between 2000-01 and 2003-04 in the Municipal Waste Management Survey, and from 2004-05 onwards via WasteDataFlow, are available on the DEFRA website at:

www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/waste/wrabanvehicles.htm

National figures prior to 2000-01 were not collected by DEFRA.