HC Deb 14 February 1989 vol 147 cc108-9W
Dr. Cunningham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish the estimated costs of administration, per vehicle registered, of road fund licences issued in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

Registration, licensing and taxation of vehicles forms part of the same administrative process. The total cost of that process in 1987–88 was £108.3 million. Thirty-three million vehicle licences were issued in that year; there were also 20 million other vehicle transactions, such as new registration documents issued.