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About quarter of road fatalities involve people who are speeding or involve speed in some form or another.

I, I couldn't agree less with the honourable gentleman. The simple, the simple fact of the ma... I mean he was even wrong when the - when he quotes the Department's statistics, which actually show that about a quarter of road fatalities involve, er involve er people er who are er er speeding or involve speed in some form or another. And the fact of the matter is that this is a situation that has been arrived at after the deployment of safety cameras which I believe is actually having a pervasive effect on people's attitude to speed on our roads, not just at camera sites but all around the road network. The simple fact of the matter is that cameras work. We took steps last year to make sure that there's no possible incentive for those who have to decide where the cameras go up in terms of, of the finances of, of cameras. Um The the the, if and the honourable gentleman says that three quarters of a million pounds were raised by one camera - well that indicates that a heck of a lot of people were speeding in that area and if they stopped speeding they wouldn't pay a penny.

I think I've got Ladyman's answer to the second question complete here: