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Dunwoody wants inquiry on VI mistakes

15th August 1996
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• Labour Transport Select. Committee member MP Gwynneth Dunwoody is calling for a parliamentary inquiry into allegedly inaccurate parliamentary answers supplied by the Vehicle Inspectorate.

Transport Minister Sir George Young faces censure if claims that VI chief executive Ron Oliver mis-stated the number of stolen test certificates in a Parliamentary answer are proved correct.

In a written response to one of 150 Parliamentary questions Dunwoody submitted in July, Oliver told her that 51,694 test certificates were stolen from garages in 1995/96 . But a researcher spotted that the figure given in the VI's 1995/96 effectiveness report was 61,396.

Dunwoody is calling for a Parliamentary procedural cornmittee investigation after receiving what Labour claims were unclear explanations for the discrepancy. VI letters refer to losses in the post and in garages as well as from garages alone.

"We're not agreed on a figure yet," a Labour spokesman says. "The VI says some were lost in the post...but how many?"

The VI claims that it cannot break down how many car or truck test certificates are stolen has infuriated Labour, which claims there is a lively market for stolen truck certificates at £100 each. Oliver says mistakes should be expected in a complex organisation like the VI.

"It may not be in the Parliamentary answer," he says. "When we find it we'll put it right with an erratum slip."

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