Motor Vehicles: Exports
Transport
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Norman Baker (Lewes, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what his estimate is of the number of second-hand (a) passenger cars and (b) light vans that were sold for export in each of the last five years.
Paul Clark (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Gillingham, Labour)
holding answer
The precise information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has been notified that a total of 315,092 vehicles were exported during 2008 that had previously been registered at an address in Great Britain. By late October, 307,823 vehicles had been exported during 2009.
These figures cover all vehicle types, including commercial vehicles, and all permanent exports, regardless of whether or not the export coincided with a sale or a change of ownership.