Kirsten Oswald – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kirsten Oswald on 2016-01-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the profile of applications to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency for access to vehicle ownership data for the purpose of enforcing parking penalties was each month in the last five years.

Andrew Jones

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency does not hold vehicle keeper information. This is the responsibility of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).

Requests to the DVLA for vehicle keeper information can be made electronically or manually by post.

The number of electronic requests made each month to the DVLA by private parking companies since April 2012 is shown in the table below:

A monthly breakdown of the electronic requests made by private parking companies before April 2012 is not available.

The monthly number of manual requests made specifically by private parking companies is not available. The table below shows the quarterly amount of requests made manually via post. These figures include requests from private parking companies and other organisations or individuals who can demonstrate reasonable cause for needing the information.