Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties

Mr. David Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many vehicles were wrongly impounded under the Vehicle Excise Duty (Immobilisation, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles) Regulations 1996 in each of the last three years.

Jim Fitzpatrick
The information requested is in the following table.

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|                                                                 |2006-07|2007-081|
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|Vehicles wrongly impounded                                       |158    |253     |
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|Percentage of the total number of vehicles wheelclamped/impounded|0.17   |0.24    |
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