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Motor Vehicles: Licensing

Volume 467: debated on Monday 19 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many registered vehicle owners appeared before a court for failing to comply with the statutory off-road notification declaration in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06 and (d) 2006-07. (165850)

The exact number of people who appeared before a court for failure to declare a vehicle off the road are not recorded.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many registered vehicle owners failed to comply with statutory off-road notification declarations in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06 and (d) 2006-07. (165851)

The number of people identified as failing to comply with statutory off-road notification legislation and who had enforcement action taken against them1 is shown in the table.

1 In the 2003-04 financial year enforcement did not pick up 100 per cent. of those who had failed to comply. Complete figures to answer the question are not available for that year. In all other years all people who were identified as failing to comply were the subject of enforcement action.

Number

2003-04

1,394,317

2004-05

1,183,544

2005-06

1,341,598

2006-07

1,272,384

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many vehicles were declared off road under statutory off-road notification declarations in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06 and (d) 2006-07. (165852)

In 2003-04 DVLA received 2.65 million statutory off-road notifications. In 2004-05 the figure was 3.66 million, in 2005-06 it was 4.19 million and in 2006-07 it was 4.20 million.