§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list for each vehicle registration office the amount of vehicle excise duty collected and the number of cases discarded in the latest available year. [31832]
§ Mr. NorrisThe amount of vehicle excise duty collected by each vehicle registration office is not available but the total for 1994–95 amounted to some £600 million.
In the year 1994–95 vehicle registration offices and the London enforcement office received 1.67 million excise offence reports from the police. Of these some 458,000 resulted in the payment of out-of-court settlements or successful prosecutions. Of the rest, only 77,548 were discarded unactioned, the rest receiving some investigation before being dropped. This represents some 4.6 per cent. of receipts. The numbers, office by office, are as follows:
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Office Cases discarded Manchester 9,090 Sheffield 37 Liverpool 0 Bangor 0 Chester 4,835 Huddersfield 0 Leeds 0 Preston 728 Hull 1,254 Aberdeen 0 Inverness 0 Dundee 0 Middlesbrough 482 Newcastle 10,294
Office Cases discarded Carlisle 0 Edinburgh 0 Glasgow 3,939 Luton 1,666 Ipswich 0 Chelmsford 13,383 Norwich 0 Haverfordwest 32 Swansea 0 Taunton 714 Truro 0 Gloucester 4,645 Exeter 198 Bristol 96 Worcester 1,078 Swindon 1,216 Reading 83 Portsmouth 0 Oxford 0 Brighton 1,142 Maidstone 14 Guildford 456 Bournemouth 0 Stoke 0 Leicester 0 Lincoln 293 Nottingham 6,077 Peterborough 144 Northampton 647 Birmingham 6,017 Coventry 755 Shrewsbury 0 London Enforcement 8,233 Total 77,548