Schedule 4 - New Schedule 2A to the Road Traffic Act 1988
Road Safety Bill [Lords]
5:00 pm
Owen Paterson (Shadow Minister, Transport; North Shropshire, Conservative)
I should like to ask the Minister some quick questions about paragraph 5, entitled “Disputes”, on page 96.
The Minister will agree that the DVLA database is not 100 per cent. perfect. If mistakes are made, how will the disputes procedure work? Will there be an appeal mechanism? Will compensation be paid at the full book value of the vehicle concerned? Will the Minister take us through how the procedure would work, because the issue is left entirely to regulations. The procedure is opaque; it is not at all clear how the procedure would work.