ENFORCEMENT FUNDING
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Following the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review in October last year, the big concern for the industry is whether VOSA will continue to receive the same level of funding for its enforcement activities. The threeyear, £24m package of extra funding for enforcement that VOSA received in 2008 is about to run out, but Peoples assures CM he has planned for this.
“We always knew it would end. We spent the money on the High Risk Traffic Initiative, bringing in 100 people on 24/7, working to make a big impact on the international road traffic flow. We found this really changed patterns of behaviour and we therefore didn’t need 24/7 coverage everywhere,” he says.
“We’ve been looking at reducing the size of the teams, reducing the number of people who needed to be on 24/7, because 24/7 shift working is not cheap, and we’ve brought this back down to a manageable size.”