§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department plans to invest in the joint enforcement database initiative. [21774]
§ Mr. NorrisThe Department's Vehicle Inspectorate is investing over £11 million over three years in major changes to its information systems. This will improve the current links between the VI database and the traffic area network database, effectively giving a joint enforcement database. In addition, the Department is at present looking at ways of modernising the traffic area network database, including a possible full integration of the two databases. No investment has however yet been decided for this.