Driving
Tests
Mrs.
Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State
for Northern Ireland what the average length of time a person waited to
sit a driving test at each test centre in Northern Ireland was in the
last period for which figures are available.
[86301]
David
Cairns: Average waiting times for practical driving tests
during week ending 15 July 2006 for each test centre are shown in the
following
table.
| Test
centre | Average
waiting time
(weeks) |
Armagh | 5 |
Ballymena | 5 |
Belfast | 2 |
Coleraine | 6 |
Cookstown | 6 |
Craigavon | 4 |
Downpatrick | 8 |
Enniskillen | 7 |
Lame | 10 |
Lisburn | 5 |
Londonderry | 2 |
Newry | 8 |
Newtownards | 8 |
Omagh | 10 |
Overall
average | 6 |
24 July 2006 : Column 915WMrs.
Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State
for Northern Ireland how many people have sat and (a) failed
their first driving test and (b) passed first time at each
centre in Northern Ireland in the last three years.
[86302]
David
Cairns: Information on the number of individual candidates
involved is not available. However, details of the number of tests
conducted in the period 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2006 are as
follows.
| Number |
| Centre | Tests
conducted | Failed
first
test | Passed
first
test |
Armagh | 4,329 | 2,870 | 1,459 |
Ballymena | 11,441 | 9,060 | 2,381 |
Belfast
(Balmoral
Road) | 12,243 | 9,680 | 2,563 |
Belfast
(Dill
Road) | 8,203 | 6,510 | 1,693 |
Coleraine | 9,686 | 7,042 | 2,644 |
Cookstown | 10,665 | 7,446 | 3,219 |
Craigavon | 12,147 | 8,328 | 3,819 |
Downpatrick | 6,077 | 3,722 | 2,355 |
Enniskillen | 4,728 | 2,897 | 1,831 |
Lame | 11,499 | 9,147 | 2,352 |
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Lisburn | 7,315 | 5,855 | 1,460 |
Londonderry
(New
buildings) | 2,057 | 1,343 | 714 |
Londonderry
(Waterside
House) | 9,864 | 7,733 | 2,131 |
Newry | 8,278 | 5,410 | 2,868 |
Newtownards | 8,829 | 6,098 | 2,731 |
Omagh | 7,881 | 5,319 | 2,562 |
Drug-related
Offences
Mrs.
Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State
for Northern Ireland how many people have been charged with the
intention to supply (a) cannabis, (b) cocaine, (c)
crack cocaine and (d) other drugs in the Province in the last
three years, broken down by Westminster constituency.
[86296]
Paul
Goggins: The information requested is provided as follows.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland collates information according
to district command unit and cannot supply information broken down by
Westminster
constituency.
| | Persons
charged for intent to
supply: |
| | (a)
Cannabis | (b)
Cocaine | (c)
Crack
cocaine |
| DCU | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
Antrim | 2 | 1 | 11 | (1)3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
Ards | 11 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 7 |
East
Belfast | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
North
Belfast | 8 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
South
Belfast | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 |
West
Belfast | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Carrickfergus | 8 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Castlereagh | 13 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
Larne | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
Lisburn | 16 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 8 |
Newtownabbey | 9 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
North
Down | 14 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
Urban | 110 | 92 | 71 | 19 | 13 | 17 | 55 | 44 | 54 |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Armagh | 3 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
Banbridge | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
Ballymena | 11 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 8 |
Ballymoney | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Coleraine | 13 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 17 |
Cookstown | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 2 |
Craigavon | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
Dungannon | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Down | 5 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
Fermanagh | 14 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
Foyle | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 10 |
Limavady | 4 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
Magherafelt | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Moyle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Newry
and
Mourne | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Omagh | 4 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
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24 July 2006 : Column 918W
Strabane | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Rural | 95 | 70 | 82 | 5 | 12 | 25 | 64 | 82 | 67 |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Northern
Ireland(2) | 205 | 162 | 153 | 24 | 25 | 42 | 119 | 126 | 121 |
(1)
(c) One person was charged with intent to supply crack cocaine in
Antrim DCU in 2003-04. (2) As one person can be
charged for supply of several different drug types, the total number of
persons charged with intent to supply cannot be derived by adding the
totals for cannabis, cocaine and others together.
Note: Please note other includes Amphetamine,
Steroids, Benzodiazepines, Heroin, LSD, MDMA (Ecstasy), Methadone,
Morphine, Psilocin (Magic Mushrooms) and Stanozolol. Should a person be
charged with intent to supply more than one of these drug types, they
are only included
once.
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