Kadoe requests / #'s / who made them / fee paying?

Thorndorise

I've been digging into some of the background to get a feel for how 'big' an issue this is (for my own sanity more than anything else) - I can see the passion from the main supporters on here that regularly help people and it has invigorated me to try and help in small ways.

I did a pull from the numbers bit of the DVLA site and amalgamated the data for each year, then sorted by volume, I'm also trying to make this a bit more user friendly and stick it somewhere, I've linked to companies house and tried to show SIC codes (for me, cos it's a bug bear)

See below for the data I've collated for the top 8 'offenders' from FY 18-19 to 23-24 (not complete last quarter missing). All of these (with the exception of Horizon who've only grabbed this data for 4 years) - have been gaining data from KADOE for 6 years (as far back as the data pull goes).

Castle

Horizon Parking Ltd totals for 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 were 176,962, 434,916 and 248,389 respectively.
(Although there's no such company, it's the same company as Horizon Parking Limited but DVLA couldn't be bothered to check and get it right). 

Thorndorise

Castle said:

Horizon Parking Ltd totals for 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 were 176,962, 434,916 and 248,389 respectively.
(Although there's no such company, it's the same company as Horizon Parking Limited but DVLA couldn't be bothered to check and get it right). 

That's interesting, I've got this from the recent DL from DVLA site - seems a bit higher. But weirdly also there doesn't appear to be a Horizon Parking Ltd on CH, only Horizon Parking Limited that used to be known as Pro-Dent co. no. 07748407 - what's going on?

Ah, found it....they have updated their lists - was using 23-24 list to do the look up from....bear with me

Thorndorise

@Castle
Corrected graph, thanks for the spot, means I've got to manually check them now though

LoneStarState

Thanks for this.  I would happily guess the increases seen for both APCOA and NCP strongly correlate with the introduction of the scam drop off charges at LHR and LGW respectively.

Thorndorise

LoneStarState said:

Thanks for this.  I would happily guess the increases seen for both APCOA and NCP strongly correlate with the introduction of the scam drop off charges at LHR and LGW respectively.

Cheers, I'm going to get @Castle to mark my homework and then update as time progresses, dropping in the repeat offenders regularly seen on here

Trainerman

Thanks @Thorndorise. Very interesting information

Coupon-mad

Agreed. Very useful.

Castle

LoneStarState said:

Thanks for this.  I would happily guess the increases seen for both APCOA and NCP strongly correlate with the introduction of the scam drop off charges at LHR and LGW respectively.

I think that requests for LGW go through National Car Parks (EUK) Ltd, a different company.

Thorndorise

Update, cleaned and scrubbed data (some amalgamated due to duplicates or company name changes), these are the firms with >1M fee paying requests over the last 6 years.

Thorndorise

Data from the last 2 years (2nd year only 3 quarters data) for firms with >500k fee paying requests - troublingly we see in excess for the totals from that 1.75 year period that some are up to >3.75m!