Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
DPP & FOI Team – C2/W
Longview Road
Morriston
Swansea
SA6 7JL
Edward Williams
Email us at:
xxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
Website:
www.gov.uk/browse/driving
Your Ref:
Our Ref:
FOIR8503
Date:
16 July 2020
Dear Mr Williams
Freedom of Information Request
Thank you for your e-mail of 18 June requesting information under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
You asked:-
1. Disclose all information created after 27.2.17. relating to the action taken
by you to prevent the selling of particulars contained in the register
under ELISE/KADOE to MIL Collections Ltd.
2. Disclose all communications from 2018 onwards with the Information
Commissioner's Office relating to your failure to check for reasonable
cause (for the applicant wanting data) but still releasing particulars as
set out in Regulation 27(1)(e) of The Road Vehicles (Registration and
Licensing) Regulations 2002, -
"Disclosure of registration and licensing particulars
27.—(1) The Secretary of State may make any particulars contained in the
register available for use — (e)by any person who can show to the
satisfaction of the Secretary of State that he has reasonable cause for
wanting the particulars to be made available to him."
3 How many times since ELISE/KADOE (or similar electronic service)
started being used have you released particulars contained in the
register to an applicant under the above Regulation 27(1)(e) without
FIRST checking the application for reasonable cause for wanting the
particulars?
4 Provide a breakdown of the figure for question 3 above by the type of
organisation which requested the particulars, for example:
A) Private parking firm 100
B) Fuel filling stations 50
C) Bailiffs/county court enforcement agent 25
5 On what date did you decide that particulars contained in the register
could be released under Regulation 27(1)(e) without checking for
reasonable cause before releasing the data?
6 What was the name/job title of the person(s) who made the decision in
question (5) above?
Provide any legal advice taken received before the decision was taken.
I have considered this request alongside your previous requests for information and
concluded that your request falls within the provisions of section 14(1) and 14(2) of the
FOIA.
The DVLA will not send a written refusal in response to any further vexatious or
repeated requests in relation to the release of information under Regulation 27(1)(e)
of The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002.
The information which follows concerns the procedures for making any complaint
you might have about the reply. Please quote the reference number of this letter in
any future communications about it.
Yours sincerely
Robert Toft
Head of Data Protection Policy & Freedom of Information Team
Your right to complain to DVLA and the Information Commissioner
If you are not happy with the reply to your request, you can ask DVLA to re-consider
the response you received by writing (within two calendar months of receiving this
response) to eithe
r xxx@xxxx.xxx.xx or DVLA Freedom of Information Team, DPP/FOI,
C2W, DVLA, Swansea SA6 7JL.
DVLA will acknowledge and consider your request, re-visiting the response provided.
This is known as an Internal Review and will be considered by a staff member not
involved with the original reply.
If you disagree with the outcome of the Internal Review, you have the option to
complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO’s offices are
currently all closed, but you can contact them on this link -
http://ow.ly/oWiW50yU9Xb