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Release Of Drivers' Details To Private Parking Companies

EDM number 67 in 2014-15, proposed by Roger Godsiff on 10/06/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Companies and Roads.

That this House notes with concern the recent revelation following a Freedom of Information request that the UK taxpayer is paying up to £600,000 per year towards the cost of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) providing drivers' details to private parking companies, which then use this information to issue fines; further notes that the fee charged by the DVLA to supply this information is £2.50, but the handling cost to the DVLA of supplying it is £2.84; further notes that it is estimated that the cost of this subsidy has reached £5 million to the taxpayer over the last eight years; does not believe this to be a beneficial or appropriate use of taxpayers' funds; expresses concern about the lack of scrutiny with which the DVLA hands out UK citizens' personal details to private parking companies, which are notoriously unscrupulous and avaricious when it comes to issuing fines; believes that the DVLA should recalibrate its charges for this service so that it is at the very least breaking even, rather than providing a gift of taxpayers' money to private companies; and calls on the Government to re-evaluate the DVLA's role in assisting private parking firms to obtain citizens' personal data, and to ensure that data protection and confidentiality are not at risk from this practice.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Roger Godsiff10/06/2014Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourProposed
Mark Durkan10/06/2014FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Elfyn Llwyd11/06/2014Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSeconded
Ronnie Campbell11/06/2014Blyth ValleyLabourSeconded
Jonathan Edwards11/06/2014Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSeconded
Margaret Ritchie11/06/2014South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Dobbin11/06/2014Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Alan Meale11/06/2014MansfieldLabourSigned
Michael Weir11/06/2014AngusScottish National PartySigned
John McDonnell11/06/2014Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell11/06/2014Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Jeremy Corbyn11/06/2014Islington NorthLabourSigned
Lindsay Roy12/06/2014GlenrothesLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner12/06/2014BolsoverLabourSigned
Mary Glindon12/06/2014North TynesideLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins12/06/2014Luton NorthLabourSigned
David Crausby12/06/2014Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Martin Caton12/06/2014GowerLabourSigned
David Heyes16/06/2014Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Mark Williams16/06/2014CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Rosie Cooper16/06/2014West LancashireLabourSigned
George Mudie16/06/2014Leeds EastLabourSigned
Jim Shannon16/06/2014StrangfordDUPSigned
Mike Hancock17/06/2014Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim McGovern17/06/2014Dundee WestLabourSigned
David Simpson17/06/2014Upper BannDUPSigned
Sandra Osborne18/06/2014Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Michael Crockart19/06/2014Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Russell19/06/2014ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey23/06/2014North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech23/06/2014Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned

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