FOI release
DVSA FOI disclosure log, November 2019
Updated 17 December 2021
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| Request reference | Request status | Request summary | Date the response was issued |
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| IA/00972/19 | Fully successful | 1) a copy of any guidance, policy or procedure that assists your Dvsa inspectors/examiners in how to carry out examinations - for example where a member of the public refuses to hand over their keys.2) Do DVSA INSPECTORs/examiners have powers to open cars with or without permission to start vehicles up and work controls? 3) Provide an policies or procedures that your staff work to when a person opts to defer their vehicle examinationClarification - This refers to examiners carrying out vehicle testing. | 01/11/2019 |
| IA/00979/19 | Fully successful | Please can you provide me with the following information from the beginning of this financial tax year starting April 2019. 1. A total amount for monies/vouchers paid as a LRA's across the agency.2. A total amount of monies/vouchers paid as LRA's per zone.3. How much money/vouchers were paid as LRA's across the agency for each grade of staff across the board and split into zones. 4. The lowest award and highest award given in pounds sterling. | 01/11/2019 |
| IA/00996/19 | Fully successful | information around the number of tests taken by age for each of the test locations you have within the UK.If you can reference the test locations by postcode only, and provide number of tests taken by month and age for the past 5 years that would be wonderful. | 04/11/2019 |
| IA/01025/19 | Fully successful | Are you able to advise of any office locations in the South West region? | 08/11/2019 |
| IA/01031/19 | Fully successful | Would you please direct me to the relevant DVLA policies and practice in relation to the operation of bus services, the customer service aspects as distinct from safety. By this I mean the degree to which operators actually operate according to their published timetables, driver behaviour, etc. | 08/11/2019 |
| IA/01034/19 | Fully successful | Please could you provide the following information, split by gender for the year 2018/19:Top 10 reasons for failing the practical driving testThe number of faultless passes on the practical test The average number of minor faults accumulated on a successful practical driving test attemptThe average number of major faults accumulated on a practical driving test | 08/11/2019 |
| IA/01036/19 | Fully successful | Please send me a copy of the above FOIA response. IA/00561/19 | 08/11/2019 |
| IA/01017/19 | Fully successful | Could you provide me with similarly formatted data in an Excel spreadsheet showing the number of faults broken down by type of fault and sex for (i) 2018? Please could you provide it in an excel format? | 13/11/2019 |
| IA/01056/19 | Fully successful | Is the DVSA paperless for your daily walkaround check on your vehicles?If so what system do you have in place, is it in a contract, when does it end, how much are you paying?The contact detail for the person responsible for implementing a paperless defect reporting system & maintenance scheduling? How many vehicles you have?Clarification - my request was referring to the vehicles owned/leased by the DVSA. | 13/11/2019 |
| IA/01059/19 | Partially successful | Could I have a copy of test centre pass rates for vocational tests e.g B+E , category C and C+E Through out the UK please | 13/11/2019 |
| IA/01018/19 | Fully successful | 1)How many employees are working for your organisation, including full-time, part-time, and contracted staff?2)What is your annual intranet budget?3)What is your current intranet solution? (e.g. Invotra, Sharepoint, Kahootz, Umbraco) 4)How long have you been using this solution, and when does your contract expire?5)Do you work with an external partner to supply your intranet? If not, do you develop your intranet internally?6)Which team/individual is responsible for managing your intranet internally?7)Which other organisations have access to your intranet?8)Do you share IT services with other organisations?9) Are you using the Office 365 suite? If so, which applications from the suite are in use?10)Who is responsible for your intranet's procurement within the organisation?11)Do you use Microsoft's Active Directory to manage your people data? If so, is your Active Directory (AD) managed on-premise or in the cloud?12)Do you use any other Software as a Service (SaaS) applications? (e.g. Atlassian/Jira, Slack, Trello, Xero) | 14/11/2019 |
| IA/01049/19 | Fully successful | Please forward data per calendar year for years: 2013 - 2018 inclusive for goods vehicle infringements detected on the road within GB for vehicles operated by operators based in each of the UK regions - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for Most Serious Infringements, Very Serious Infringements and Serious Infringements as per EU definitions. If these can also be broken down into separate infringement types with summary headings or infringement codes that would be great. If codes are used can you supply the code index. | 18/11/2019 |
| IA/01060/19 | Fully successful | Please can I request information regarding the move from paper MOT certificates to the computerised system specifically the policy surrounding the reason for keeping (to pass to customers) the paper copy of the data record when the move was made. | 18/11/2019 |
| IA/01026/19 | Partially successful | Could you please provide monthly utilisation figures (as a %) for the last full year of operation (January - December incl.) at the following HGV MOT test stations: Royston, Leighton Buzzard, Peterborough, Bicester and Weedon? | 19/11/2019 |
| IA/01048/19 | Partially successful | contact numbers and opening/ operating hours for all theory test centres and practical test centres.As well as if these test centres have been bought, for how much and when or if these test centres were built, the cost of building and when. | 19/11/2019 |
| IA/01057/19 | Partially successful | The cancellation of driving tests due to bad weather and the knock-on effect it has had on people trying to re-book tests. Please provide me with information regarding the issue over the last three financial years: 2018/19, 2017/18 and 2016/17. For each of the financial years listed please tell me:1. How many driving tests were cancelled due to bad weather? 2. How long was the wait to re-book a driving test for those affected? 3. How much money did it cost to do this? | 20/11/2019 |
| IA/01073/19 | Partially successful | Please could you look into what are the pass rates for men and women from different test centres and the gender with the most failed attempts? | 20/11/2019 |
| IA/01069/19 | Fully successful | Can you please supply the unique number of Theory Test candidates on a monthly basis from Oct 2018 to date for the following vehicle categories:- Car- Bike- LGV (Multiple Choice Theory Test)- PCV (Multiple Choice Theory Test)- PDI (Multiple Choice Theory Test)By unique we mean the total number of monthly candidates rather than the total tests for each vehicle category. | 20/11/2019 |
| IA/01061/19 | Partially successful | i) the 'notice of intended action' and ii) and communications with Mercedes-Benz (using the same definition as in my first request, and including any attachments/enclosures to communications) for the following recalls:R/2018/282R/2018/266R/2018/271R/2019/077R/2019/256 | 21/11/2019 |
| IA/01075/19 | Fully successful | 1. How many people failed their theory tests first time between your records of 2015-2019 in South West London? 2.How many theory tests were taken and failed between your records of 2015 -2019 in London excluding the SW postcode? Clarification - I refer to car theory tests yes Further Clarification - - So looking for people who took their first attempt in a SW test centre and nowhere else. It should include the total amount of tests for that year (broken down by men and women) and then the amount of men and women who failed that test first time. - And could the "rest of london" part be split by location and postcode, so for example a seperate "North London" table that include tests centres with the "N" postcode, a "South East London" table that includes test centres with the "SE" postcode etc etc. | 21/11/2019 |
| IA/01072/19 | Partially successful | The number of people passing and failing their Driving Test (Cars) each month, in all driving test centres in London. Please could I have data going back to the calendar year 2010.2) Out of those passing their tests in London, the number who pass with 12 or more minor faults. | 25/11/2019 |
| IA/01102/19 | Fully successful | 1. Given such enhancements would have been included within the costs associated with the MOT indicated in the accounts, I would like to know which "enhancements to the MOT service" were developed which fell outside the MOT costs shown in the accounts.2. I would like to know in which "areas of work" from within DVSA that those deficits arose, and why any issues causing such deficits have not been remedied over a three year period. 3. I would also like to know what steps have been taken to ensure that all MOT receipts will in future be spent on the MOT Scheme so as to improve Test quality, and the service provided by DVSA both to Testing Stations and motorists. | 25/11/2019 |
| IA/01084/19 | Fully successful | The number of sanctions that have been issued to on commercial vehicle drivers and operators in the UK under Section 4 of ESP 2019 since April 2019.This data be broken down according to the following categories, to the extent that the cost of complying with the request would not exceed the appropriate limit:(1) A breakdown of ESP 2019 sanctions issued to commercial vehicle drivers and operators since April 2019 categorised according to type:- Verbal warning- Prohibition notice- Inspection notice- Fixed penalty and deposit notices- Further action (categorised into action key codes)(2) In the case of sanctions issued to commercial vehicle drivers and operators since April 2019 incurring a fixed penalty or deposit notice - The value of each penalty/deposit notice OR- The total value for each type of sanction OR- The total value of all penalties incurred under Section 4(3) A breakdown of ESP 2019 sanctions issued to commercial vehicle drivers and operators since April 2019 categorised according to offence description:- DRIVERS' HOURS - EC - BREAKS / REST - DRIVERS' HOURS - EC - DRIVING TIME- DRIVERS' HOURS - AETR - BREAKS / REST- DRIVERS' HOURS - AETR - DRIVING TIME- RECORDS - FAIL TO PRODUCE / ALLOW TO INSPECT, COPY ETC- RECORDS - FAIL TO USE RECORD SHEET OR DRIVER CARD / FAIL TO KEEP ARTICLE 6(5) RECORD (EC OR AETR)- RECORDS - FAIL TO TAKE A PRINT / SIGN HARD COPY- RECORDS - INSUFFICIENT RECORD SHEETS OR PRINT ROLL / WRONG TYPE OF - - - - PAPER / FAIL TO ENSURE PRINTING CAN BE CARRIED OUT- RECORDS - FAIL TO SWITCH RECORD SHEETS OR CARDS (DM) / USE CORRECT SLOT- RECORDS - MANUAL ENTRIES / CENTREFIELD DETAILS / MODE SWITCH / COUNTRY - - SYMBOL / TIME NOT SET TO COUNTRY OF ORIGIN- RECORDS - UNAUTHORISED WITHDRAWAL / USE TOO LONG / DIRTY OR DAMAGED / INCOMPATABLE- RECORDS - FALSIFIED RECORDS- RECORDS - FAIL TO RETURN / ENSURE RETURN OF RECORDS / FAIL TO KEEP FOR 1 YEAR- DRIVERS CARDS - MORE THAN ONE / DEFECTIVE / EXPIRED / CORRECT FUNCTIONING / PROPER USE OF / APPLY FOR REPLACEMENT- DRIVERS CARDS - FORGED OR ALTERED / FALSE DECLARATION TO OBTAIN CARD- RECORDS - DOWNLOADING OF VU / CARD- TACHOGRAPH - NOT FITTED- TACHOGRAPH - SPEED TRACE MISALIGNED / IMPROPER USE- TACHOGRAPH - INCORRECT FUNCTIONING / NOT PROPERLY FITTED / INCORRECT REPAIR / NOT SEALED- TACHOGRAPH - DEFECTIVE- TACHOGRAPH - CALIBRATION / 2 YEARLY CHECKS- TACHOGRAPH - INTERFERENCE DEVICES / FORGED SEALS | 25/11/2019 |
| IA/01127/19 | Fully successful | Information from the DVSA for both test centres in Norwich - Peachman Way, Norwich NR7 0WE and Jupiter Road, Hellesdon.How many people passed on each day of the week in the years 2019, 2018 and 2017? | 27/11/2019 |
| IA/01148/19 | Fully successful | 1. Does Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - formerly Driving Standards Agency (DSA) and Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) allow staff to use their own devices to access work email? Please answer Yes or No.2. Does Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - formerly Driving Standards Agency (DSA) and Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) allow staff to use their own devices for any other work-related activities? Please answer Yes or No.3. If you answered yes to question 2 please provide a list of the types of systems that staff can access from personally owned devices?4. Does Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - formerly Driving Standards Agency (DSA) and Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) have a policy that covers BYOD or the use of personal devices at work? Please answer Yes or No.5. If you answered yes to question 4 please could you provide a copy of your policy that covers BYOD or personal device usage at work? | 27/11/2019 |
| IA/01085/19 | Fully successful | My request is for statistics of drivers hours violations and vehicle checks and defects found both nationally and locally. | 27/11/2019 |
| IA/01078/19 | Partially successful | My request relates to practical car driving tests administered at Exeter DVSA Driving Test Centre for the years 2016, 2017, 2018, and up to and including October 2019. Please could you provide information of the following:1). The total number of car practical driving tests that took place at the centre2). How many tests were successful at the centre3). How many tests were covered by an instructor from somewhere other than Exeter (i.e. an out of Exeter instructor) & what location they came from. 4). How many of the tests administered by the covering out of Exeter instructors were successful. | 27/11/2019 |
| IA/01113/19 | Fully successful | 1) Please could you provide all communication between the DVSA and Northamptonshire Police in respect of the joint operation carried out on Sunday 06 October 2019 at Silverstone Circuit for the event TRAX.2) Please provide the planned shift time for the DVSA officers working on this operation and whether there were any spontaneous changes due unforeseen events.3) Please provide any guidance or literature provided to the DVSA officers about why they were required, what they were going to be doing and the locations they were meant to be working from.4) Please provide a list of DVSA officer warrant numbers/shoulder numbers who attended. | 28/11/2019 |
| IA/01077/19 | Partially successful | Information around the number of tests taken by age for each of the test locations you have within the UK.If you can reference the test locations by postcode only, and provide number of tests taken by month and age for the past 5 years that would be wonderful.But for the theory tests - again by centre and details of the centre's location.So to be clear, the number of tests by month and year by age category for the driving theory test by location (with minimum of postcode). | 29/11/2019 |