Bristol City Council

The complainant has requested the details of how many motor vehicles have been seized for non-payment of unpaid penalty notices during the last 5 years, together with the registration of the vehicles which had been registered with the Traffic Enforcement Centre Court. The council provided details of the number of seizures but refused to provide the registration of the vehicles on the grounds that section 40(2) of the Act applied (personal data). The complainant also asked the council to provide him with details of a specific contact details for an individual member of the public who had had correspondence with the parking enforcement officer previously. Again the council refused to provide details of the person under section 40(2) of the Act. The Commissioner’s decision is that Bristol City Council has correctly applied section 40(2) to the information it withheld. The Commissioner does not require the authority to take any steps.