Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions sellers of motor vehicles have been convicted of failing to use form V5C/3 to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency of the transfer of a vehicle to a new owner in each of the last five years.

The Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. However, not all offences are individually reported within the centrally held data. Data for offences of failing to use form V5C/3 to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency of the transfer of a vehicle to a new owner are held as part of a related group of vehicle licensing offences, and it is not possible to separately identify prosecutions for this specific offence from other offences within this grouping. This information may be held by the individual courts in England and Wales and as such it can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.