Andrew Stephenson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fixed penalty notices were issued to drivers of vehicles registered in another country that should have been but were not registered in the UK in each of the last five years.

Stephen Hammond

Failure to register a vehicle following the six-month exemption period is not an offence for which a fixed penalty notice can be issued. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency instead writes to keepers of these vehicles offering them an out of court settlement where it appears that an offence has been committed, so that the matter may be resolved without court proceedings. The table below shows the amount of these out of court settlement letters issued in the last five financial years.

Since April 2014, 237 out of court settlement letters have been issued.