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10 May 2021
Tracy Clark
[FYI request #15186 email]
REF: OIA-7973
Dear Tracy
Request made under the Official Information Act 1982
Thank you for your email of 15 April 2021 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act
1982 (the Act):
Can the NZTA please provide the total amount of money they have received annually for each of the last
five years from companies accessing the DLVS?
Can NZTA please provide the cost to NZTA for running of the DLVS service for each of these 5 year?
I will address each of your requests in turn below.
Can the NZTA please provide the total amount of money they have received annually for each of the last
five years from companies accessing the DLVS?
The table below shows the total annual revenue received by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency from all users
accessing the Driver Licence Verification System (DLVS).
Driver Licence Verification System
Financial Year
Revenue ($)
2015-16
395,654
2016-17
447,726
2017-18
502,512
2018-19
491,377
2019-20
575,189
Note 1 The revenue figures are exclusive of GST.
Can NZTA please provide the cost to NZTA for running of the DLVS service for each of these 5 year?
Waka Kotahi only records the combined annual costs to operate and maintain all of the various channels used to
access the Driver Licence Register for the purpose of validating a person’s driver licence. Such channels include
Driver Check, Transport Operator Register Online (TORO), Certificate of Particular requests, Demerit Point and
Suspension History Report requests and the DLVS.
As Waka Kotahi doesn’t group the costs for Register access into subcomponents, we are unable to provide the
costings specific to the DLVS, therefore I am refusing this part of your request under section 18(e) of the Act, as
despite reasonable efforts to locate the information, it cannot be found.
If you would like to discuss this reply with the Waka Kotahi, please contact Karen Griffiths, Team Leader Revenue
Reporting and Analysis by email at [email address].
Yours sincerely
Fiona Buckner
Senior Manager, Financial Operations