§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by vehicle registration office, the number, grades and salary costs of staff employed on vehicle excise duty enforcement and the total amount of revenue collected by those staff in 1992–93.
§ Mr. KeyThe information requested is as follows:
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Staff In Posts and Salaries 1992–93 (£000s) VRO by Region Executive staff Clerical staff Salary costs Scottish Aberdeen — 4 40 Carlisle 1 4 53 Dundee — 4 33
VRO by Region Executive staff Clerical staff Salary costs Edinburgh 1 11 140 Glasgow 2 25 262 Inverness — 3 23 Middlesborough 2 12 104 Newcastle 3 18 197 Total 852 North England and North Wales Bangor 2 7 86 Chester 1 8 91 Huddersfield 1 7 93 Hull 2 7 95 Leeds 4 20 234 Liverpool 3 21 252 Manchester 4 21 278 Preston 2 14 135 Sheffield 2 14 155 Total 1,419 Midlands Birmingham 5 24 326 Coventry 1 12 120 Dudley 1 9 99 Leicester 1 13 114 Lincoln 2 10 130 Northampton 1 11 148 Nottingham 1 15 152 Peterborough 1 9 106 Shrewsbury — 5 37 Stoke 1 8 85 Total 1,317 Southwest England and South Wales Bristol 4 23 270 Cardiff 4 20 205 Exeter 4 17 179 Gloucester 2 10 130 Haverfordwest 1 3 17 Swansea 2 9 75 Taunton 2 7 91 Truro 2 5 100 Worcester 2 8 110 Total 1,177 London and Eastern Chelmsford 5 24 310 Ipswich 2 9 115 Luton 6 30 397 Norwich 2 10 101 Total 923 Southern Bournemouth 3 12 163 Brighton 4 24 274 Guildford 3 14 179 Maidstone 4 20 288 Oxford 1 11 105 Portsmouth 3 15 177 Reading 2 16 201 Swindon 1 7 76 Total 1,463 London Enforcement Office 37 207 3,391 The total salary costs for 1992–93 was £10.5 million.
The revenue recovered for 1992–93 was as follows: 708W
£ million Out of court settlements paid 10.5 Prosecution 27 Total 37.5
§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list for each no further steps code the number of vehicle excise duty offence reports written off for the financial year 1992–93.
§ Mr. KeyVED offence reports are written off as "no further steps" when enforcement action has had to be discontinued for a specified reason. The figures for 1992–93 were:
Number NFS 1 (unable to trace the offender or prove liability for the offence) 408,000 NFS 2 (time expired for court action) 1,200 NFS 3 (insufficient staff resource) 1,200
§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many vehicle excise duty offence reports(a) were settled out of court or (b) resulted in a prosecution and fines, in 1992–93 and in the current financial year.
§ Mr. KeyThe number of VED enforcement cases brought to a successful conclusion in 1992–93 and between April and November 1993 were:
1992–93 April-March 1993–94 April-November By out of court settlement 242,000 157,000 By prosecution 193,000 140,000 In addition, in 1992–93 180,000 motorists were induced to take out a licence as a direct result of enforcement action. To November this year the figure stands at 137,000.
§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many vehicle excise offences reports have been generated so far this financial year;
(2) how many vehicle excise offences reports were received by DVLA in 1992–93.
§ Mr. KeyThe number of vehicles reported to DVLA for alleged VED offences in 1992–93 was 1.8 million and 1.2 million for this financial year to November.