§ Mr. PendryTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many people are employed by the driver and vehicle licensing centre in Swansea; how many inquiries they have received during the last 12 months; and how many driving licences have been(a) issued and (b) reissued during the last 12 months.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyBetween December 1987 and November 1988 the driver and vehicle licensing centre issued a total of 6.727 million driving licences of which 1.189 million were first provisional licences and the remainder reissues of varying types.
Driver and vehicle licensing centre's staff in post at 1 December 1988 totalled 5,214. A total of 3,773 are employed at Swansea and the remainder in vehicle registration offices.
In the year 1987–88 there were 373,000 progress inquiries (representing 0.52 per cent. of all transactions processed) and 1.312 million information inquiries making a total of 1.685 million.