Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many British names and addresses were handed over to the French authorities by the DVLA in 2018 in response to accusations of driving offences in France.
The number of sets of vehicle keeper data released by the DVLA following alleged motoring offences can be found in the table below. The DVLA first started receiving live requests for vehicle data from France in January 2019.
| France | EU (including France) | ||
Speeding Offences | Other Driving Offences | Speeding Offences | Other Driving Offences | |
2017 | - | - | 80,595 | 2,558 |
2018 | - | - | 237,172 | 22,906 |
2019 | 239,746 | 1,721 | 362,097 | 8,435 |
Between 2015 and 2017, 466 requests for information were received from outside of the EU for road traffic offences. Figures are not yet available for 2018.