§ The Marquess of Ailesburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they came to an agreement with Hammersmith and Fulham Council in 1986, whereby the council was to complete and submit Form CLE 2/6 in respect of 2,654 unlicensed vehicles, and their owners were to be prosecuted.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Transport (Lord Brabazon of Tara)There was no formal agreement between the council and the department. In response to a request in 1986 the department's London enforcement office provided the council with forms to enable their staff dealing with abandoned vehicles to report to the department any apparently unlicensed vehicles sighted in the course of their duties.
Separate figures on the number of offence reports received from the council as a result and of consequent prosecutions or out-of-court settlements are not available. In all, the London enforcement office brought to book 64,000 VED evaders in 1986.