AQW 9971/17-22

Mr Andrew Muir
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 09/11/2020
Answered On Date: 20/11/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for her assessment of the impact of receiving no funding for Driver and Vehicle Agency lost income in the October monitoring round.

Answer:

As the Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA) is primarily funded through fees collected for all of its services to the public, COVID-19 has had a major impact on the financial position of the Agency.

At the October monitoring round my Department put forward a £12m bid for the remaining estimated loss of DVA income. This bid for funding was unsuccessful at this round and a further bid has since been submitted. If no funding is received for this loss of fee income, the DVA Trading Fund will be in a significant deficit position for the 2020-21 year and planned capital investment for future years may not go ahead. I would intend to submit another bid for this funding as part of January Monitoring.