§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what information he has about the number of cars which failed an MOT test in 2000–01. [40209]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe Vehicle Inspectorate collects returns from all 19,000 MOT testing stations on a monthly basis which contain details of the vehicles tested, failures and passes. A 2 per cent. sample of the returns is used as186W the basis for calculating an annual fail rate. In 2000–01 22,775,000 cars, vans and passenger vehicles with up to 12 seats were tested, with a fail rate of 31.7 per cent. More information about failure rates and defect categories can be found in the Vehicle Inspectorate Effectiveness Report 2000–01, a copy of which has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
The introduction of the computerised MOT database from January 2003 will provide the Inspectorate with the facility to improve the reporting of pass and fail rates.