Who asks DVA for information?
The Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA) vehicle register is maintained primarily to identify vehicles used on public roads, to assist law enforcement and the collection of taxation, and to facilitate improved road safety.
Requirement for data protection
The law requires DVA to protect the privacy of individual motorists and to ensure that personal data is used fairly and lawfully. However, whilst the vehicle register is not an open record, there are a limited range of circumstances in which data can be used properly for other purposes.
List of bodies that request information from DVA Vehicle Register under the reasonable cause provisions
- Child Support Agency
- Compensation Agency
- Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Central Investigation Service
- Dept of Enterprise Trade & Investment
- Department of Finance and Personnel
- Department of Regional Development, Water Service
- Driver & Vehicle Agency (Testing)
- Enforcement of Judgments Office
- Northern Ireland Environment Agency
- Experian
- Finance Companies
- Fisheries Conservancy for NI, Loughs Agency
- HMRC
- Insolvency Service
- Insurance Companies
- Legal Services Commission
- PSNI
- Roads Service
- Social Security Agency
- The Planning Service
- Trading Standards
- Transport for London
Making a request for information from DVA records
Requests for information from DVA records should be in writing. You can request personal information held about yourself, or information about other vehicle keepers. Requests for vehicle information can be made online, in writing or by telephone.
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