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Vehicle registrations including the number "999"
James West made this Freedom of Information request to Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
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From: James West
19 October 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of
Information Act.
Could you give me the following information:
1) The number of licensed vehicles in the UK on December 31st 2008
2) The number of vehicles involved in incidents that were dealt
with by the issuing of fixed penalty notices during the calendar
year 2008 (to clarify I don't want the total number of fixed
penalty notices issued, or the number of drivers dealt with by use
of fixed penalty notices, but the number of vehicles involved in
fixed penalty notices)
3) The number of vehicles with "999" as part of their registration
number in the UK on December 31st 2008 (eg A 999 BCD or ABC 999 D)
4) The number of vehicles with "999" as part of their registration
number involved in incidents that were dealt with by the issuing of
fixed penalty notices during the calendar year 2008
Some parts of this request may be easier to answer than others, and
should this prove to be the case I would ask that you release
available data as soon as possible rather than hold up the entire
request.
I would prefer to receive this information electronically. If the
decision is made to withhold some of this data using exemptions in
Act, please inform me of that fact and cite the exemptions used.
If you need any clarification then please contact me at the email
listed. Under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance
I would expect you to contact me if you find this request
unmanageable in any way before the twentieth working day.
I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have
received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you in
the near future.
Yours faithfully,
James West
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Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
19 October 2009
Dear Mr West,
Please see the attached letter.
Regards.
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Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of
Information Act.
Could you give me the following information:
1) The number of licensed vehicles in the UK on December 31st 2008
2) The number of vehicles involved in incidents that were dealt
with by the issuing of fixed penalty notices during the calendar
year 2008 (to clarify I don't want the total number of fixed
penalty notices issued, or the number of drivers dealt with by use
of fixed penalty notices, but the number of vehicles involved in
fixed penalty notices)
3) The number of vehicles with "999" as part of their registration
number in the UK on December 31st 2008 (eg A 999 BCD or ABC 999 D)
4) The number of vehicles with "999" as part of their registration
number involved in incidents that were dealt with by the issuing of
fixed penalty notices during the calendar year 2008
Some parts of this request may be easier to answer than others, and
should this prove to be the case I would ask that you release
available data as soon as possible rather than hold up the entire
request.
I would prefer to receive this information electronically. If the
decision is made to withhold some of this data using exemptions in
Act, please inform me of that fact and cite the exemptions used.
If you need any clarification then please contact me at the email
listed. Under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance
I would expect you to contact me if you find this request
unmanageable in any way before the twentieth working day.
I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have
received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you in
the near future.
Yours faithfully,
James West
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From: James West
17 November 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
re your ref FOIR 1723/09 and 1724/09
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Driver and Vehicle
Licensing Agency's handling of my FOI request 'Vehicle
registrations including the number "999"'.
I am sure you are aware of your obligation to reply promptly, but
this response is now overdue.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ve...
Yours faithfully,
James West
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Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
17 November 2009
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Dear Mr West,
Please find attached the response to your FOI requests.
If you still require an Internal Review please let us know.
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Dear Sir or Madam,
re your ref FOIR 1723/09 and 1724/09
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Driver and Vehicle
Licensing Agency's handling of my FOI request 'Vehicle
registrations including the number "999"'.
I am sure you are aware of your obligation to reply promptly, but
this response is now overdue.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ve...
Yours faithfully,
James West
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Ben Harris left an annotation ( 8 December 2009)
The "commercial selling agents" are unlikely to be of use, since the information they get "does not include the ... vehicle registration mark".
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Alex Skene left an annotation (17 November 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
Fujitsu, our IT supplier, who charge in excess of £600 per day, will do the bulk of this work.
It takes at least a full day for Fujitsu to write, test, schedule and run the query. Therefore the
cost will be above the appropriate limit as described above. "
They are mistaken in this regard - the max they take into account for Section 12 is £25/hour.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2004/2004324...
" (4) To the extent to which any of the costs which a public authority takes into account are attributable to the time which persons undertaking any of the activities mentioned in paragraph (3) on behalf of the authority are expected to spend on those activities, ****those costs are to be estimated at a rate of £25 per person per hour****"
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