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Driving: Age

Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent assessment she has made of whether to change the age at which an individual can start driving. [181450]

Jim Fitzpatrick: I refer to the answer given on 15 January 2008, Official Report, column 1088W to the right hon. Member for East Yorkshire (Mr. Knight).

Government Mail

Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many deliveries were lost by Government mail in the last year for which figures are available. [181328]

Jim Fitzpatrick: I refer the right hon. Member to my answer of 19 November 2007, Official Report, column 460W given to the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban).

Roads: Death

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport at which times of day incidents causing the deaths of drivers aged between 17 and 25 years occurred in each of the last 10 years, broken down by hourly interval. [180390]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The number of reported personal injury road accidents resulting in 17 to 25-year-old car driver fatalities by hour of accident for Great Britain from 1997 to 2006 are shown in the table.

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Number of fatal accidents
Hour of accident	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
00:00	24	18	17	15	20	25	26	24	24	21
01:00	10	24	24	19	13	17	12	24	22	24
02:00	23	10	11	11	21	13	17	19	14	17
03:00	12	12	10	11	15	11	23	12	10	17
04:00	10	2	9	9	7	9	8	13	9	12
05:00	9	5	2	13	6	9	6	15	8	10
06:00	12	10	4	9	6	10	16	9	14	8
07:00	18	11	11	13	16	17	7	12	15	11
08:00	17	19	12	12	14	18	15	18	17	17
09:00	9	12	6	7	7	7	9	8	3	10
10:00	10	13	10	10	5	9	12	4	6	11
11:00	11	5	3	9	5	9	5	9	4	9
12:00	11	9	5	7	9	9	13	8	15	11
13:00	16	12	11	13	7	13	7	9	7	6
14:00	4	9	14	7	9	10	16	3	10	17
15:00	14	10	7	6	8	10	15	5	8	13
16:00	10	12	14	10	13	8	15	10	15	18
17:00	16	14	11	12	13	18	16	17	11	21
18:00	22	28	13	13	16	13	25	20	22	20
19:00	15	15	14	11	26	15	18	16	22	19
20:00	22	22	20	23	23	18	13	23	26	22
21:00	26	14	19	26	18	29	19	22	25	23
22:00	25	26	21	17	31	26	26	26	32	20
23:00	28	18	22	29	24	23	20	32	21	31
Total	374	330	290	312	332	346	359	358	360	388

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