Will Quince – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Will Quince on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34465, if his Department will take steps to allow web-users to include honours when completing Government online forms.

Mr Robert Goodwill

My Department provides a wide variety of online forms across multiple systems. Most of these are designed to enable web users to use perform a transaction, such as to book a driving theory test. Therefore we only ask our users the minimum information required to process their requests to enable them to complete these transactions as quickly as possible.

I am mindful that there could be an additional cost to the taxpayer in making changes to online systems to capture and store additional data.