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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 proportion of personal detail entries relating to UK residents which contained inaccurate information on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (a) vehicle register database, (b) driver register database, (c) local office casework systems database and (d) driver and vehicle intelligence database in each of the last four years.
Answer

[holding answer 11 December 2008]: Accuracy surveys are completed on the vehicle record (annually) and driver record (biennially) but not on the local office casework system record database or driver and vehicle intelligence database. The reported accuracy levels are:

Percentage
2004 2005 2006 2007
Licensed Vehicles 92 97 98 97
Driver Records n/a 82 n/a ¹n/a
¹ The 2007 survey of driver records was cancelled. However, the 2003 result reported 82 per cent. accuracy

Full vehicles surveys were conducted in late 2003, 2005 and 2007. Figures for 2004 and 2006 are estimates based on internal measures.Surveys reporting on 2008 accuracy of both vehicles and drivers databases are currently being undertaken and are due to report early next year. Surveys are now programmed to be conducted every year.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
485 c609W; 242431
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Databases Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency Personal records
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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