Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Databases

(asked on 6th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has had discussions with EU officials on sharing vehicle keepers' details for the purpose of enforcing driving fines.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 14th December 2021

Officials of the Department for Transport have had no such discussions on this issue with officials of the EU since the UK fully left the EU.

While the UK was a member of the EU, the UK electronically provided vehicle keeper data to EU Member States who enquired about vehicles who committed certain traffic offences. This was facilitated under the EU Cross-Border Enforcement Directive (CBE). The UK only used the outbound mechanism of CBE, meaning that we responded to enquiries from Member States, but we never sought to obtain the equivalent information from them about their nationals driving in the UK. Since leaving the EU, the UK is no longer obliged to provide vehicle keeper data to requesting EU Member States through this mechanism.

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