Police Escorts

Mr. Greenway
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the cost in police time of escorting wide or exceptionally loaded vehicles for the last year for which figures are available for each police authority in England and Wales. [67792]

Mr. Boateng
The information requested is not available centrally but it has been estimated by the Association of Chief Police Officers that the costs are over £7 million a year.