HC Deb 01 March 2004 vol 418 cc644-5W
Bob Spink

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what sum was; paid to the Post Office in each of the last five years for dealing with motor vehicle licensing applications. [157159]

Mr. Jamieson

Post Office Ltd. provides facilities for motor vehicle relicensing at over 4,500 post office branches. The costs are as follows.

£ million
1999 41
2000 39.2
2001 37.5
2002 40.5
2003 41.7

Bob Spink

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what considerations control the number of post offices permitted to deal with motor vehicle licensing applications. [157160]

Mr. Jamieson

A number of factors have to be taken into consideration. The main one being striking a balance between cost to the taxpayer and convenience to the motorist. The current network of offices means that 95 per cent. of customers have access to a MVL issuing post office branch within two miles of their home.

Bob Spink

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many(a) post offices and (b) sub–post offices were authorised to deal with motor vehicle licensing applications in 1997; and how many are now authorised to deal with motor vehicle licensing applications. [157161]

Mr. Jamieson

There were 4,000 Motor Vehicle Licensing [MVL]offices in 1997. Of these around 600 were Branch (Crown) Offices and 3,400 other post offices.

At present there are 4,548 MVL issuing offices. These comprise 552 Branch (Crown) offices and 3,996 others.

By the end of March 2004 a further 44 offices will provide the service, bringing the number of MVL offices to 4,592.

Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the post offices in Chorley which deal with motor vehicle licences [157719]

Mr. Jamieson

At present there are seven motor vehicle licensing post office(r) branches in the Chorley constituency. They are:

Address
Whittle Le Woods 23 Shaw Brow, Chorley, PR6 7LE
Chorley Cleveland Street. Chorley, PR7 1AW
Adlington 18/20 Market Place Chorley, PR7 4EZ
Eccleston Unit 14a Carrington Centre, Chorley, PR75UP
Coppull 165 Spendmore Lane. Coppull, Chorley, PR7 5BY
Brinscall 50/54 School Lane, Brinscall, Chorley, PR6 8QP
Hoghton The Straits, Hoghton Preston, PR5 0DA

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