Recent legislation - what difference might it make?

Handbags-at-dawn

You can't help feeling the powers-that-be are keeping plenty of wriggle-space in reserve:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/546606/response/1314846/attach/2/Response%20not%20held.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

beamerguy

Handbags-at-dawn wrote: »

You can't help feeling the powers-that-be are keeping plenty of wriggle-space in reserve:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/546606/response/1314846/attach/2/Response%20not%20held.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

Thanks .... and the onwards link ....
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2019-01-15.208929.h&s=speaker%3A25428#g208929.r0

The Government supports Sir Greg Knight's Private Members’ Bill, the Parking (Code of Practice) Bill, which seeks to create an independent code of practice for private parking companies and a single body for parking appeals. If a parking company was to repeatedly break this code, then their access to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) data would be blocked. This data includes information on the vehicle keeper, so a company blocked from accessing it would be unable to pursue parking charges. I spoke at the Bill’s Third Reading in the Commons to voice the Government’s support and it has now passed to the House of Lords.

Snakes_Belly

I have today emailed Sir Greg Knight and copied in my own MP. I have not gone into detail about my case but have mentioned specifically the £60.00 debt collector's fee scam. If you consider how many times this £60.00 is added on plus interest at 8% then is a nice little earner. This should not only be stopped but they should face some kind of investigation as it is dishonest, If it was an MP they would be hung out to dry.

The Codes of Practice are not followed and not worth the paper that they are written on. I have never known organisations that seem to be able to get away with so much.

I hope that some ordinary people have an input into the new Codes of Practice and that they leave Dracula in the crypt where he belongs.

beamerguy

Snakes_Belly wrote: »

I have today emailed Sir Greg Knight and copied in my own MP. I have not gone into detail about my case but have mentioned specifically the £60.00 debt collector's fee scam. If you consider how many times this £60.00 is added on plus interest at 8% then is a nice little earner. This should not only be stopped but they should face some kind of investigation as it is dishonest, If it was an MP they would be hung out to dry.

The Codes of Practice are not followed and not worth the paper that they are written on. I have never known organisations that seem to be able to get away with so much.

I hope that some ordinary people have an input into the new Codes of Practice and that they leave Dracula in the crypt where he belongs.

Well done. These legals operate the next WONGA and should be investigated by the FCA

Wonga to pay redress for unfair debt collection practices

https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/wonga-pay-redress-unfair-debt-collection-practices

Le_Kirk

If a parking company was to repeatedly break this code, then their access to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) data would be blocked.

What constitutes repeatedly, twice, thrice, ten times, a hundred times ....

beamerguy

Le_Kirk wrote: »

What constitutes repeatedly, twice, thrice, ten times, a hundred times ....

And as UKPC has been banned twice, will that roll over or will it be a clean slate

The_Deep

To repeat means to do or say something more than once, therefore twice gets my vote.

beamerguy

The_Deep wrote: »

To repeat means to do or say something more than once, therefore twice gets my vote.

It must be an example set to ban one of the scammers we see here
to wake the others up.

There is only a handful of vermin we see here, one will go.

Then it's the dodgy legals turn to be investigated