We asked the Department what use it was making of its enforcement powers.54 Parliament granted the Department additional enforcement powers in December 2018 and July 2019. The Department accepted that it has “a set of enforcement powers that are probably among the strongest in the world”, including the power to suspend driving licenses and passports, and in the most extreme cases prison sentences.55 Between January 2020 and September 2021 in England and Wales, the Department secured six suspended disqualifications from driving, no (immediate or suspended) passport confiscations and five immediate prison sentences.56 The Department told us that to suspend passports or driving licences it had to demonstrate to a court that the customer could pay within six months. It explained that “all sanctions are deterrents” and that this was enough in a very large number of cases as “something like 80% of these cases get settled before they go to court”..57 The Department committed to supplying us with details of the number of cases that had been settled as a result of the threat of sanction rather than the sanction having to be used.58