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VOSA responds to TSC report findings

5th November 2009
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ay ChristopneuWatton VOSA HAS TOLD the Transport Select Committee (TSC) that in certain locations it might be appropriate to transfer existing VOSA test stations to the private sector.

In its response to the TSC's summer report, called The Enforcement Activities of VOSA, in which the committee outlined proposals to improve the operational efficiencies of the agency (see CM 27 August). VOSA says that if testing stations were transferred to the private sector, it would he on a site-by-site basis.

However, the agency argues that while the Testing Transformation Programme (TIP) is not property-led, if it is successful and a significant proportion of tests do shift to non-VOSA sites, it would cut the cost pressures the agency is under and result in lower testing fees for operators,

Road Haulage Association director of policy Jack Semple tells CM: We need to know how many locations are appropriate for transfer and where they are going to be. Might not VOSA raise a lot of money by making a lot of locations available to the private sector?"

VOSA was also given the chance to clarify further recommendations made by the TSC during the summer. With regards to fears that VOSA shouldn't rely on the Operators Compliance Risk Score (OCRS) when targeting noncompliance, it said the OCRS database was not used in isolation as a targeting mechanism.

It also stressed that OCRS data had never been presented as any kind of league table to indicate overall operator quality.

Furthermore, VOSA confirmed that a postimplementation review of the Graduated Fixed Penalty scheme will take place in May 2010.

The UK will be required under European law to check 3% of all days worked by drivers from 1 January 2010, compared to the current 2%.

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