THE Free Press' fight to have figures about the controversial Marlow Hill speed camera made public is going back to the House of Lords after a peer demanded answers from Government.

Baroness Gardner of Parkes, who first backed our Bring Us Up To Speed campaign in June last year, has tabled questions asking to know the number of fines issued in the last three years at the camera site in High Wycombe.

The Baroness has also asked the Government if the positioning of the camera, just before the speed limit changes from 30mph to 40mph, is correct after coming out to High Wycombe to see it for herself.

She said: "I have heard so much about that camera that I had to take a look.

"I think the positioning is awful. It is on a very steep hill and you need to accelerate to get up it."

The questions will be read out to the House of Lords on Monday, October 2. Replies can take up to two weeks.

Baroness Gardner first joined our campaign after Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership (TVSRP), the body responsible for speed cameras, repeatedly refused our requests using the Freedom of Information Act to uncover how many fines were issued at the mobile speed camera site.

In the House of Lords she said: "The Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership has, claiming an exemption under the Freedom of Information Act, refused to respond to press requests for figures of the amount of revenue raised and the number of fines issued.

"Surely rather than this being secret it should be public information," she said.

Our request for these figures was also rejected by the Information Commissioner, the overseer of the Freedom of Information Act, earlier this year.

The Free Press has submitted an appeal and is waiting to hear when our hearing will take place.

Dan Campsall, from TVSRP, has said: "We have always maintained the reason for keeping specific figures out of the public domain is because of the impact they can have to road safety across the whole network."

"If people know information about individual camera sites they will know where they are more likely to be caught."