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Welsh-based DVLA attacked over green campaign
publication date: Aug 10, 2009
The DVLA has been forced to defend its decision to use Spanish-made cars in a competition to cut down on paper documents and improve electronic registrations. The agency has been using the Seat Ibiza, not British-made vehicles, as prizes to encourage people to pay their car tax online and by phone and said it was the only car maker to meet their requirements of it not costing the agency anything to promote its electronic registrations programme. But John Spellar, the MP for Warley in the West Midlands and a former transport minister, demanded that ministers "get a grip" and called the move "extraordinary". He told national media, "At a time when the British motor industry and its workers are having a tough time, it is extraordinary that a Government agency should be promoting cars produced overseas. No other major manufacturing country would be behaving like this and ministers should get a grip on their civil servants." Speaking about the monthly prize draw, which began in June last year, a DVLA spokeswoman said, "We wanted to ensure we could offer the incentive for taxing electronically at no cost to the agency and therefore no cost to the taxpayer. Seat was able to agree to this." |
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