Heavy Commercial Vehicles (Hansard, 18 October 1993)

HC Deb 18 October 1993 vol 230 cc26-7W 26W

§ Mr. Spearing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the number of staff in his Department, or under contract to them, engaged in the random checking of weights of heavy commercial vehicles(a) at the latest date for which figures are available and (b) 10 years previously.

§ Mr. Key
The Vehicle Inspectorate is responsible for the weighing of heavy commercial vehicles. This work is 27W carried out by traffic examiners—TEs—responsibility for whom was transferred to the inspectorate from the Department in April 1991. The inspectorate currently employs 168 full-time TEs; on 1 November 1983 the figure was 157.