To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many duplicate copies of road tax discs have been issued due to processing errors (a) to the hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby and (b) other vehicle keepers in 2009 to date. (275495)

Two duplicate tax discs were sent to the hon. Member because of an error. The same error resulted in 62,255 other tax discs being sent to vehicle keepers in error. Since the Electronic Vehicle Licence application system went live in February 2004 it has issued over 35 million tax discs. This is the only occasion on which an error like this has occurred.