Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
DVLA
Longview Road
Swansea
SA6 7JL
Telephone
Fax
Steve Elibank
Email
[FOI #27203 email]
Website
www.direct.gov.uk/motoring
Your Ref
19 January 2009
Our Ref
FOIR 1807/10
Date:
12 February 2010
Dear Mr Elibank,
Freedom of information request
Your request was received on 19 January 2010 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). In your email you asked for
a full and
comprehensive list, in electronic format and alphabetical order, of every vehicle registration
mark which was recorded as in use, or registered to a vehicle, as of 31 December 2009.
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. There are some 33 million plus records which would need to be interrogated
against via a newly constructed data query to see if they were registered after 31 December
2009. 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.
Our IT supplier would do the bulk of this work and based on previous work an indicative
example would take around 3 man days effort charged at the contractor rate of £600 per day.
The work involved would be to write, test, schedule and run the query. Therefore the cost
will be above the appropriate limit as described above.
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.
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 to FOI – D16,
Longview Road, Morriston, Swansea, SA6 7JL, or by email, [DVLA request email]
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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
DVLA
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