Number plate withdrawal

Steve Toomer made this Freedom of Information request to Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

The request was successful.

From: Steve Toomer

7 July 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,
Could you provide information on what you will do with registration
numbers if withdrawn under new legislation regarding your terms on
how they should look.
1 will you hold that registration for future use
2 will it be erased from existence
3 will it be sold on to a private company
4 will it be sold back to the public on your web site

If you have any of the above in place what have you predicted to
make in the way of profit. If any money raised by this, where will
the money go to, what organisation.

Yours faithfully,

Steve Toomer

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From: Steve Toomer

9 August 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,
Response overdue, and you have broken the law, any reason for this?
not a difficult question for you to answer, as no doubt you have
thought this through and would have a business plan in place and
department set up to deal with this.

Yours faithfully,

Steve Toomer

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Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

10 August 2009

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Dear Mr Toomer,

Thank you for your email. Please find attached the response DVLA provided to you. As explained at the time, DVLA responded to you as 'business as usual' not under the Freedom of Information Act. As these types of requests are DVLA's day to day business.

Attached also, is the follow-up response to that reply.

I trust that explains the issue.

Regards,

DVLA

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Dear Sir or Madam, Response overdue, and you have broken the law,
any reason for this? not a difficult question for you to answer, as
no doubt you have thought this through and would have a business
plan in place and department set up to deal with this.

Yours faithfully,

Steve Toomer

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Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

10 August 2009

Dear Mr Toomer,

I must apologise, I sent you the response to one of your other emails in error. This type of email is part of DVLA's day to day routine business, and they are responding under this, not Freedom of Information. Your email concerning the withdrawal of number plates was sent to the relevant department, and I can only apologise that is was not dealt with withing 10 days as is their policy.

The Department of Transport, acting through DVLA has statutory responsibility under the powers of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 and subsequent amendments, for vehicle registration and licensing in the United Kingdom. Section 23(2) of the Act allows DVLA to assign and withdraw marks on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport. Registration marks are not items of property in their own right, so it is not possible to acquire legal title to them.

The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 were amended in April 2009 to allow for the voluntary display of certain national flags and identifiers on number plates. The specifications for the display of the registration mark have not been affected.

Registration marks that have been withdrawn because they have been misrepresented are not re-issued or sold again.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards,

FOI
DVLA

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Dear Sir or Madam, Response overdue, and you have broken the law,
any reason for this? not a difficult question for you to answer, as
no doubt you have thought this through and would have a business
plan in place and department set up to deal with this.

Yours faithfully,

Steve Toomer

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