§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many clerical staff within the Vehicle Inspectorate are currently undertaking traffic examiner duties on temporary promotion;
(2) how many tachographs were examined by the Vehicle Inspectorate in each of he last 12 months; and how many prosecutions resulted from these checks;
(3) how many spot checks on vehicles were undertaken by the Vehicle Inspectorate at the ports of Dover, Hull, Felixstowe and Liverpool; and how many traffic examiners were stationed at each port in each of the last five years;
(4) how many vehicles were weighed by the Vehicle Inspectorate in each of the last 12 months; and how many prosecutions resulted from those checks;
449W(5) how many vehicles were examined at vehicle spot checks by the Vehicle Inspectorate in each of the last 12 months; and how many prosecutions resulted from these checks.
§ Mr. NorrisThere are operational matters for the Vehicle Inspectorate Agency. I have asked the chief executive to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Ron Oliver to Ms Joan Walley, dated 13 March 1995:
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your questions concerning various enforcement activities within the Agency for each of the last 12 months.There are currently 2 clerical staff undertaking traffic examiner duties on temporary promotion. The posts are scheduled to be trawled and filled on substantive promotion in the near future.Details of the number of tachograph examined, total number of roadworthiness spot checks and number of vehicles weighed in each of the last 12 months are shown in the attached annexes. Current details for the information on prosecutions is not available in the form requested. However, for 1993/94 there were 4,422 successful prosecutions for drivers hours offences, 5,521 for overloading offences and 5,620 other traffic offences. We have recently centralised and refined the handling of prosecution work within the Agency. This will improve the collection and availability of data.The road transport enforcement work within the Inspectorate is broadly divided into 23 geographical "Areas" I have provided details of traffic examiner checks at or in the approaches of harbours for the areas in which Dover (Area 14), Hull (Area 21), Felixstowe (Area 17) and Liverpool (Area 6) are based. The figures include checks made at all harbours within the area, we do not have separate Figures for each Port. Traffic examiners are required to work throughout the area and are not "stationed" to work exclusively at the Ports. The current number of traffic examiners for these 4 "Areas" are.
Number of traffic examiners Area 6 7 Area 14 10 Area 17 6 Area 21 5
Roadside spot checks February 1994 to January 1995 PSV HGV LGV February 2,348 9,740 3,477 March 1,601 6,520 2,104 April 1,467 11,505 2,522 May 2,140 12,834 3,349
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Vehicle examination (including weighing) at harbours, within selected enforcement areas April May June July August September October November December January Total for 10 months Area 6 HGV 104 105 74 85 203 69 220 215 57 16 1,148 Light goods 134 136 100 120 282 85 309 280 74 19 1,539 PSV 0 0 5 14 0 6 0 4 0 0 29 238 241 179 219 485 160 529 499 131 35 2,716 Area 14 HGV 205 282 346 428 267 503 618 917 599 664 4,829 Light goods 327 450 500 655 381 690 791 1,098 707 906 6,505 PSV 55 90 72 48 37 163 81 90 86 71 793 587 822 918 1,131 685 1,356 1,490 2,105 1,392 1,641 12,127
Roadside spot checks February 1994 to January 1995 PSV HGV LGV June 2,435 10,578 3,375 July 3,821 14,277 4,682 August 2,619 10,982 4,153 September 2,673 12,296 7,905 October 2,482 12,080 4,645 November 2,758 10,622 6,483 December 2,473 8,860 5,892 January 2,534 6,773 7,495
Monthly checking of tachographs and weighing of vehicles HGV tachos PSV tachos 1994 February 138,153 10,700 March 133,503 32,294 April 107,742 9,404 May 110,981 13,620 June 107,256 21,197 July 153,115 34,037 August 123,186 29,488 September 129,186 28,430 October 123,170 21,755 November 121,916 16,204 December 110,818 21,751 1995 January 94,882 14,277 Total 1,454,570 253,167 Total tachographs (12 months) = 1,707,737
Monthly weighing of vehicles HGV weighings PSV weighings Light goods weighings 1994 February 8,549 31 411 March 9,594 70 580 April 6,905 90 428 May 6,797 145 487 June 6,904 210 467 July 9,183 444 576 August 7,573 231 523 September 10,474 124 642 October 18,863 52 584 November 22,907 62 561 December 18,371 89 674 1995 January 6,106 12 557 Total 132,226 1,560 5,690 Total weighings (12 months) = 140,476
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Vehicle examination (including weighing) at harbours, within selected enforcement areas April May June July August September October November December January Total For 10 months Area 17 HGV 958 892 776 1,442 814 1,022 1,676 2,180 515 1,001 11,276 Light goods 1,458 1,410 1,187 1,972 11,28 1,104 1,703 2,193 525 1,348 14,028 PSV 26 31 25 36 18 17 0 3 0 0 156 2,442 2,333 1,988 3,450 1,960 2,143 3,379 4,376 1,040 2,349 25,460 Area 21 HGV 978 705 331 467 125 200 116 41 146 5 3,114 Light goods 1,150 826 397 554 132 228 118 43 147 5 3,600 PSV 210 165 0 0 29 128 17 107 16 0 672 2,338 1,696 728 1,021 286 556 251 191 309 10 7,386