Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions the DVLA has (a) written to or contacted and (b) initiated legal proceedings against sellers of motor vehicles for failing to use form V5C/3 to notify the DVLA of the transfer of a vehicle to a new owner in each of the last five years.

Officials have advised that the information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.

The V5C/3 section of the Registration Certificate is used by a registered keeper to notify the DVLA of the disposal of a vehicle to a motor trader. The DVLA can write to, and take enforcement action against, those who fail to notify disposal of a vehicle.

However, over the last five years, more than 32 million people have notified the disposal of a vehicle to the motor trade by submitting a V5C/3 to the DVLA.