Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
DVLA
Longview Road
Swansea
SA6 7JL
Steve Elibank
Email
[FOI #30245 email]
Website
www.direct.gov.uk/motoring
Your Ref
8 March 2010
Our Ref
FOIR 1873/10
Date:
16 March 2010
Dear Mr Elibank,
Freedom of information request
Your request was received on 8 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 the every vehicle
registration mark which has been issued since 1st January 1991.
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. In you previous request we mentioned 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. With this query we would need to interrogate every
record current or expired since 1991. 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,
DVLA, 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
Freedom of Information
DVLA
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