Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many roadside enforcement checks were completed by the Vehicle Operators Services Agency or the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency on (a) cars and (b) heavy goods vehicles in each year for which figures are available.

The information requested is in the table below. It is important that the HGV figures are not added together. On any given check it is often the case that the same vehicle is checked by a Vehicle Examiner and a Traffic Examiner and will be counted against both disciplines. Some vehicles/operators are targeted by only one discipline, for example, an older vehicle might be targeted for its condition but not to check on the driver.