Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to carry out an assessment of the effect on privacy and industry regulation of the practice of private car parking companies distributing third parties information from the DVLA vehicle keeper database.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
My Department has no plans to carry out an assessment, but we are carefully reviewing the case for reform of the private parking sector.
The Information Commissioner’s Office carried out an audit in March 2016, and judged the DVLA’s procedures to offer high assurance that processes to mitigate the risks of non-compliance with the Data Protection Act are in place.