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Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what year-on-year change there has been in the number of speed cameras there has been in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each London borough in each of the last 11 years. [266426]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The Department for Transport only holds information about the number of safety camera sites (covering both fixed and mobile camera enforcement) operating within the National Safety Camera Programme for England and Wales which started in 2001 and ended on 31 March 2007.

The table shows for each year the number of speed camera sites in each region operating within the national programme, using the “date established” supplied by the safety camera partnerships. Figures for England are shown but separate information for each London borough is not held. Different areas entered the national programme on different dates, and in many cases had established camera sites before joining the programme which are not shown in the table.

Since 1 April 2007 the deployment of safety cameras has been the responsibility of individual local partnerships. The number of cameras in place since then is therefore a matter for each individual partnership.

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Camera sites by area	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Avon and Somerset	104	189	228	247	247	247	247
Bedfordshire	30	88	90	95	114	114	114
Cambridgeshire	36	56	67	74	88	92	92
Cheshire	18	26	54	64	75	80	80
Cleveland	34	38	47	52	52	54	54
Cumbria	0	0	35	35	39	44	44
Derbyshire	45	73	108	123	127	128	128
Devon and Cornwall	55	95	105	124	145	147	147
Dorset	29	51	92	99	102	105	105
Essex	117	126	159	168	215	220	220
Gloucestershire	29	29	60	72	72	72	72
Greater Manchester	67	79	135	153	261	268	271
Hampshire	19	22	50	61	66	68	68
Hertfordshire	23	23	51	63	80	94	95
Humberside	0	0	64	77	81	81	82
Kent and Medway	38	62	96	118	126	129	129
Lancashire	63	150	268	338	344	345	345
Leicestershire	7	65	77	83	83	88	88
Lincolnshire	25	38	48	57	60	61	61
London	294	305	323	352	403	439	439
Merseyside	0	0	0	0	24	46	51
Norfolk	8	14	24	29	31	37	37
Northamptonshire	26	28	35	39	77	84	84
Northumbria	34	34	103	121	121	126	126
Nottinghamshire	10	44	44	53	55	62	62
South Yorkshire	35	112	119	119	119	119	119
Staffordshire	54	55	65	81	98	98	98
Suffolk	1	3	47	55	55	55	55
Surrey	15	16	16	16	21	23	30
Sussex	25	50	58	69	77	78	81
Thames Valley	213	266	269	274	275	275	275
Warwickshire	8	20	21	34	34	37	37
West Mercia	0	0	40	53	56	60	63
West Mids	97	100	116	141	155	161	161
West Yorkshire	6	27	47	79	83	86	86
Wiltshire	6	23	50	62	62	63	63
Grand total	1,571	2,307	3,211	3,680	4,123	4,286	4,309

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