<br />
ONLINE WEEKLY<br />
MOTORTRADER<br />
ISSUE 31 THE VOICE OF THE CAR RETAILING SECTOR 1 DECEMBER 2009<br />
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Scrappage demand<br />
was overestimated<br />
Curtis Hutchinson<br />
<br />
<br />
THE government has been<br />
forced to review the exact<br />
number of cars ordered under<br />
its scrappage scheme after<br />
it emerged that some orders<br />
have been double-counted.<br />
The Department for Business<br />
Innovation and Skills (BIS)<br />
has taken down its weekly<br />
roundup of order figures<br />
from its website and posted a<br />
notice saying it is undergoing<br />
a “mid-scheme data cleansing<br />
exercise”. It said it plans<br />
to resume publishing them<br />
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