Written question asked by Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party) on Wednesday, 9 June 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 16 June 2004. It was answered by David Jamieson (Labour) on Wednesday, 16 June 2004 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Dept for Transport

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment has been made of potential change in the number of road traffic accidents as a result of moving to Central European Time. - Inc figures.

Answer: Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent assessment has been made of potential change in the number of road traffic accidents as a result of moving to Central European Time. [178864] Mr. Jamieson: The most recent is a Government commissioned report, by the Transport Research Laboratory, published in October 1988, which concluded that if the UK adopted Central European Time (CET) i.e. GMT + one hour in the winter from October to March and GMT two hours in the summer from March to October, thereby making the evenings lighter, there could be a saving of over 100 deaths per year, and taken together with serious injuries, save well over 400 such casualties.

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