Oh yeah I absolutely will do another HPI check myself. Just trying to get a sense of whether this should be a red flag that the dealership is dishonest, or if they genuinely believe that they are not legally allowed to show me the HPI report.

Yes, they're talking nonsense. GDPR covers personal data. HPI reports don't contain personal data.

Find another car at another dealer

Find another car at another dealer

We haven't heard from the OP for over a fortnight ....

As normal! I do wish people would reply, some of the questions we get are really interesting and personally I would love to know the outcome...

Its lack of updates or even the odd thanks that is helping so many forums to die off, this is an old fashioned place in many ways (despite it being inhabited by so many lefties :-) ) and many knowledgeable posters who gave real expert advice have disappeared over time, one such was a long time mechanic who really knew his stuff, so many times he would give freely of his expertise quite likely saving the poster £hundreds and invaluable time only for the OP to completely ignore him afterwards, it annoyed the hell out of me let alone said mechanic...sadly basic manners are vanishing everywhere, they say a fish rots from the head down.