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Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Databases

Answer

The Vehicle Register holds information about vehicles and vehicle keepers for the purposes of licensing and registering vehicles, road safety and law enforcement and to support the Government's environmental policies. The accuracy of the Vehicle record is maintained through regular contact with registered vehicle keepers, including annual or bi-annual transactions for the payment of Vehicle Excise Duty.The driver register holds details of drivers, including driving entitlement, endorsements and medical information for the purposes of licensing drivers and road safety. The accuracy of the driver record is maintained through legal obligations placed on licence-holders to inform DVLA of changes of personal details, and supported by notifications from the police, courts and fixed penalty offices.The local office casework system is an additional database used to record vehicle excise and registration offences. Information held on this database is used to enforce and prosecute these offences.The driver and vehicle intelligence database is a database that holds intelligence on suspected fraudulent activity involving driving licence or vehicle transactions. This information is used to aid the prevention, detection and enforcement of vehicle and driver related offences.DVLA takes the accuracy of information held on all its databases seriously in line with data protection requirements.It has in place an accuracy programme, involving a wide range of initiatives to build upon and further improve the accuracy of all the information held on its databases.This initiative will include the identification of opportunities for sharing and cross checking information between DVLA's databases.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

483 c1089W; 238845

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Databases Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

Link

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