DARLING PRAISES CAMPAIGN TO GET VEHICLES LICENSED
31 March 2005 - DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT

Transport Secretary Alistair Darling welcomed new figures which show over one million more vehicles are now registered - a 3.4% increase - despite little change in the number of new vehicles being licensed.

The number of licensed vehicles - over 1 million greater than in the previous year - shows that the Government''s efforts to reduce tax disc evasion, including the new continuous registration scheme, which ensures that each vehicle has a registered owner, are working.

Under continuous registration, people are responsible for declaring that they are no longer the keeper of a vehicle or that the vehicle is no longer being used on the public highway.

The law change was introduced in order to reduce the number of untaxed vehicles on the road. As car tax can only be purchased with a valid insurance and MOT certificate (if required), reducing the number of untaxed vehicles means reducing the number of vehicles without insurance and MOT.

Alistair Darling said:

''The figures show that tighter controls on registration are working, with over one million more people paying their road tax. Vehicles which had fallen out of the system are now properly registered and taxed and are being driven legitimately again. This makes the roads safer for all of us.

''The vast majority of law-abiding motorists are rightly fed up with the small number of people who do not license or insure their vehicles. It is in everyone''s interest that the continuous registration scheme continues to be a success and that we keep reducing the menace of untaxed, uninsured and often roadworthy vehicles.''

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