DVLA driver data-sharing project delayed by costs 2


Tom Espiner writes on the ZDNet web site:

An £870,000 IT project to share driver data between the DVLA and motor insurers is floundering over who will bear the costs, according to MPs.

The Industry Access to Driver Data (IADD) project, which began in 2009, was designed to allow insurers to query DVLA records of driver licence information to decide whether to sell insurance to prospective customers, based on licensing information.

The project, which cost £870,000 between 2009 and August 2011, has run up against the buffers of cost negotiations between the government and insurers, roads minister Michael Penning told the House of Commons on Thursday.

He reports:

The data-sharing project is designed to close a “loophole” that allows people driving without a licence to take measures to avoid detection by the police, Penning said in the debate. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology, used by the police to scan car number plates, shows whether a particular car is insured, and has an MOT and a registered owner. ANPR does not show whether the registered owner has a valid licence, said Penning.


2 thoughts on “DVLA driver data-sharing project delayed by costs

  • Tom Welsh

    “An £870,000 IT project to share driver data between the DVLA and motor insurers is floundering over who will appear to bear the costs, according to MPs”.

    There, fixed that for them.

    Of course the car owner and taxpayer will bear the costs, as always. There is no one else, after all.

    What the MPs are worried about is that the government should not be seen to be taking yet more money away from us. They will probably work out some scheme whereby the insurance companies will pay, then recoup from policy-holders.

  • Tom Welsh

    “An £870,000 IT project to share driver data between the DVLA and motor insurers is floundering over who will appear to bear the costs, according to MPs”.

    There, fixed that for them.

    Of course the car owner and taxpayer will bear the costs, as always. There is no one else, after all.

    What the MPs are worried about is that the government should not be seen to be taking yet more money away from us. They will probably work out some scheme whereby the insurance companies will pay, then recoup from policy-holders.

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