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Roddy Graham's Blog: 22 December 2007

Date: 22 December 2007

Roddy Graham is chairman of the ICFM and commercial director of Leasedrive Velo

I guess really I shouldn't have suggested the other week that the DVLA take over data management across government departments.

I guess really I shouldn't have suggested the other week that the DVLA take over data management across Government departments. News is just in of the loss of over three million learner driver details. Where is all this going to end? The Government is haemorrhaging now and there appears to be no end in sight.

What I would actually like to know is what a hard disk with the names, addresses and telephone numbers of every candidate who applied for a theory test between September 2004 and April this year was doing at an apparently secure location in...the USA! Meanwhile, the discs containing details of 25 million people lost by an HMRC courier are still missing.

The question of vehicle emissions should be occupying the minds of the heads of all vehicle manufacturers, post Bali. As I write this, emergency talks are being held to set EU targets to reduce CO2 emissions on new cars to 120 grams per kilometre within five years.

In the one corner, we have the lightweights in the form of the Italian and French vehicle manufacturers who are all for it as they already produce small and light cars. In the other corner, we have the heavyweights represented by the likes of the German and Swedish vehicle manufacturers who produce heavier, more high performance cars who consider the targets favour too unfairly the lightweights!

Plans are for new levels of 130g/km to be established, representing around a 25% cut, with a further 10 grams sought through other improvements.

A compromise deal is expected which would see targets skewed by weight. Trouble is that this would just allow vehicle manufacturers to continue producing heavy, energy-inefficient cars. Meanwhile, the world keeps on burning!

On that encouraging note, I would like to wish all readers of my blog a very Merry Christmas around a nice, warm log fire.



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