Thank you. Keepership details are covered by the Data Protection Act, but the DVLA seems to have exempted itself from this by selling keeper details to anyone showing "reasonable cause" to require them. However, it has also exempted itself from its own exemption, by actually selling unimpeded electronic access of DVLA keeper details to BPA members, one of which, as you heard on BBC Watchdog on 29 March and read in The Telegraph on 2 April, has a criminal conviction for 36 offences of “reckless unfairness” in pursuing drivers for penalties.

Last year, Parking Eye, accessed 695,909 keeper details, potentially bringing in an income of £41,754,540 million if every keeper paid at the rate of £60. The Protection of Freedoms Act will change the law so that parking enforcement agencies can pursue registered keepers for penalties. But until that comes into force, parking enforcement agencies actually only have the right to ask that the penalty be forwarded to whoever was driving the car. Even, so some of them are already fraudulently pursuing registered keepers for payment. But how have parking enforcement operators got away with this change in the law that should collectively net them an extra £60 million a year in addition to the £100 million they already grab?