Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
DVLA
Longview Road
Swansea
SA6 7JL
Telephone
01792
Fax
01792
HMP Britain
Email
[FOI #18414 email]
Website
www.direct.gov.uk/motoring
Your Ref
23 September 2009
Our Ref
FOIR 1680/09
Date:
7 October 2009
Dear Mr Britain,
Freedom of information request
Your request was received on 23 September 2009 and I am dealing with it under the terms of
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). In your email you asked for the
1. Please send me a full list of all licence plates / VRNs currently registered to a vehicle.
I can confirm that DVLA holds information falling within the description specified in your
request within its databases. However, we estimate that the cost of collating the information
would exceed the appropriate limit of £600.
Section 12 of the FOI Act exempts the DVLA from complying with a request where the cost
in determining whether we hold the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the
information exceeds £600.
This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3.5 days (or 24 hours) costed at
£25.00 per hour. This costing is set out in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection
(Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.
However, DVLA has commercial selling agents to whom we sell anonymised data. They
may be able to help you with your request. I have provided a list of them at Appendix A.
There will probably be a charge for any data they supply.
2. Please tell me how many VRNs are currently registered to vehicles and those vehicles are
or maybe on the road.
I can confirm that as at 31 March 2009 there were 34,261,800 licensed vehicles on the road.
Please see the table below for detail.
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Thousands
Motor
Light
Heavy
Buses &
Other
Date
Cars
cycles
goods
goods
coaches
vehicles
Total
31 Mar
2009
28,464.5
1,286.4
3,226.5
510.9
179.0
594.5
34,261.8
The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-
commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other re-use,
for example commercial publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder.
Most documents supplied by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency will have been
produced by government officials and will be Crown Copyright. You can find details on the
arrangements for re-using Crown copyright on the Office of Public Sector Information
website at: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/index.htm.
If you are unhappy with the decisions made by this Agency in relation to your request, you
may ask for an internal review. If you wish to complain, you should write this email address.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Please see attached details of the
complaints procedure and your right to complain to the Information Commissioner.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me Please remember to quote the
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reference above in any future communications.
Yours sincerely
FOI DVLA
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