§ Mr. Eldon Griffithsasked the Secretary of State for Transport how many vehicle registration and licensing records formerly held by local taxation offices have been destroyed by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre at Swansea.
§ Mr. HoramAfter consultation with the Home Office and the Association of Chief Police Officers approximately 2½ million such records, relating to vehicles which have been neither converted to the centralised system nor licensed since December 1976, are in course of being destroyed by the local taxation offices in readiness for their closure on 31st March 1978.