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Roads: Horses

Asked by Dr Luke EvansConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 17 November 2025UIN 90366

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2025 to Question 83938 on Roads: Horses, if she will make an assessment of trends in levels of equestrian related incidents in (a) England and (b) Leicestershire.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

The number of reported personal injury road collisions involving ridden horses for the last 10 years in England and Leicestershire (local authority) are shown in the table:

Year

England

Leicestershire

2015

90

4

2016

97

2

2017

81

3

2018

69

0

2019

51

0

2020

73

1

2021

76

2

2022

68

0

2023

49

0

2024

59

1

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