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Written question asked by Justine Greening (Conservative) on Monday, 8 December 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 11 December 2008. It was answered by Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour) on Tuesday, 16 December 2008 on behalf of the Department for Transport.


Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Personal Records

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the number of UK residents whose personal details are held on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (a) vehicle register database, (b) driver register database, (c) local office casework system database and (d) driver and vehicle intelligence database.
Answer

[holding answer 11 December 2008]: We are not able to provide the number of UK residents currently registered on these databases. However the total number of currently licensed vehicles on the vehicle record and current driving licence holders on the driver database is:

Number
2004 2005 2006 2007
Licensed Vehicles 32,258,857 32,897,383 33,368,840 33,956,832
Driver Records 40,681,227 41,335,798 42,011,724 42,736,627

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
485 c608-9W; 242430
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Databases Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency Personal records
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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