Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
DVLA
Longview Road
Swansea
SA6 7JL
Steve Head
Email
[email address]
[email address]
Website
www.direct.gov.uk/motoring
Your Ref
1 March 2010
Our Ref
FOIR 1856/10
Date:
16 March 2010
Dear Mr Head,
Freedom of information request
Your request was received on 1 March 2010 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). In your email you asked for how many Honda
motorcycles CBX were first registered in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983. How many
CBX are currently registered in the UK. How many CBX are currently on SORN.
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. With this query we would need to interrogate every record current (33 million
plus) or expired since 1978. 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.
I would like to advise you that it may be possible for DVLA to provide the information
requested at a later date due to the implementation of new IT systems, thereby bringing the
cost of doing so below the appropriate limit. At present we have no exact date of
implementation but an estimated go-live date is late summer.
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.
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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
DVLA, Longview Road, Morriston, Swansea, SA6 7JL, or by email, [DVLA request email]
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
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