Motor Vehicles: Safety

(asked on 27th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of vehicles not fit for the roads that have been improperly issued a MOT certificate in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 1st February 2021

The Department for Transport does not make an annual assessment on this basis. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) takes action against garages if they are found to be issuing certificates to unroadworthy vehicles, including stopping them from testing altogether. In 2020 the DVSA stopped 443 garages and testers from testing.

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