Vehicles registered since 2014 (FOI)

​​Request

A

Please provide a yearly breakdown on the number of vehicles registered in Jersey since 2014.

B

Please provide a yearly breakdown on the number of four-by-four vehicles registered in Jersey since 2014.

C

Please provide a figure, or an estimate, for the total number of cars on-island as well as yearly breakdown for this.

Response

A

B

The Government of Jersey does not maintain a list of the 4x4 vehicles that are registered annually.

The Vehicle Registration Register, managed by Driver and Vehicle Standards (DVS), does not contain a 4x4 category since some 4x4s will be registered as estate cars or light utility vehicles and so on depending upon the vehicle manufacturers specifications.

Therefore, this information is not held and Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies. 

The DVS system is not configured in a way that will allow extraction of the information and a manual search of records would be required in order to obtain this information. 

It has been estimated that to provide the information requested would exceed the 12.5 hours allowed for Freedom of Information responses in accordance with Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied  and this part of the request will not be processed further.

C

As of 13 October 2024 there were 90,717 cars on the DVS register. 

The following figures were extracted from paper statistics booklets.

The information requested for 2021 up to 30 September 2024 is exempt under Article 23 (Accessible by other means) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

The Government of Jersey have committed to publish vehicle registration details quarterly on open data:

Welcome - Government of Jersey Open Data (gov.je)

Information up to 30 September 2024 can currently be accessed using the following link:

All Vehicles Registered in Jersey - Datasets - Government of Jersey Open Data (gov.je)​

Once downloaded, the whole spreadsheet can be filtered to allow the extraction of the specific information required eg cars registered.

DVS does not maintain an annual list of the number of registered cars on island, therefore the requested information for 2018, 2019 and 2020 is not held and Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

The DVS system is not configured in a way that will allow extraction of the information requested for 2018, 2019 and 2020 and a manual search of records would be required in order to obtain this information. 

It has been estimated that to provide the information requested would exceed the 12.5 hours allowed for Freedom of Information responses in accordance with Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014.  Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied and this part of the request will not be processed further.

Articles applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding Information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information, it must inform the applicant accordingly.

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.