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Department for Transport: ICT

Answer

The information requested is listed below for each year.

2016/17

Item	Spend (£)
	DFT (c)	DVLA	VCA	MCA	DVSA
Tablets	0	0	0	34,476 (1)	2,204 (1)
iPads	0
Paper	2,507,882 (4)

Note: MCA spend for 2016/17 is due to the implementation of the Survey & Inspection Transformation Programme part of which involves equipping our marine surveyors with more appropriate ICT tools while inspecting and surveying vessels.

2015/16

Item	Spend (£)
	DFT (c)	DVLA	VCA	MCA	DVSA
Tablets	10,795	2,655 (1)	0	0	1,394 (1)
iPads	0
Paper	3,914,360 (4)

2014/15

Item	Spend (£)
	DFT (c)	DVLA	VCA	MCA	DVSA
Tablets	0	6,150(1)	0	249 (1)	410 (1)
iPads	442
Paper	4,499,740 (4)

2013/14

Item	Spend (£)
	DFT (c)	DVLA	VCA	MCA	DVSA
Tablets	0	2,223 (1)	0	2,171 (1)	0
iPads	2,660
Paper	4,453,762 (4) (3)

2012/13

Item	Spend (£)
	DFT (c)	DVLA	VCA	MCA	DVSA(5)
Tablets	1,166	191 (1)	0	0	16,769 (1)
iPads	0
Paper	3,070,322 (4) (2)

Note: The DVSA 2012/13 spend reflects the pilot to investigate the use of mobile IT for driving examiners by 31 March 2014.

(1) – indicates spend combined for Tablets and iPads.

(2) – The figure quoted is before the merger of DSA and VOSA to create the DVSA. It does not include any spend by DSA or VOSA.

(3) – The figure quoted is before the merger of DSA and VOSA to create the DVSA. It includes spend by VOSA but no figures are available for DSA.

(4) – indicates a combined spend across the Department. Spend is for both white paper used generally in the office and the paper required specifically for the DVLA’s forms etc.

5) Note that DVSA did not come into existence until 2014/15 with the merger of the DSA and VOSA – the figure shown for spend on tablets and ipads relates to DSA only.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

65992

Session

2016-17

Subjects

Department for Transport ICT Paper

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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