OK...I'm on it....thanks again.

Good Morning! Many thanks for your reply; much appreciated. I will scroll through the .gov site as suggested. I'm not sure though, whether Lammy would be the guy for me as this is Scotland and we have our own 'pigs at the trough', and the last time I had an MSP look into this he was fobbed off by the SLC (as was Lord K). In the last two days I have had eleven phone calls from SLC and another at 9.15 am today: this has ceased to be annoying...we've gone on to another level altogether - it's insanity! But I do thank you for your response - it's good to know others are in the same boat. Perhaps organising the 1000s who are unfairly persecuted by the SLC scams would be a step in the right direction? It seems scandalous enough to me and we're all voters (although, as the ex-mayor of London once said, "If voting changed anything, they'd have banned it years ago." Thanks Ken).

After a lull in communications from SLC they have once again started their phone harrassment nonsense. Nine years this has been ongoing. They claimed I had not returned a deferment form in 2000 and, although I had politely suggested that this was without doubt a clerical error on their part (recorded delivery slip as proof), this was ridiculed by their phone numpties. They said they didn't make clerical errors. I pointed out that I had in my possession a letter marked 'confidential' concerning the account of a Mr Capel of Brighton which had been sent to me in Scotland from the SLC which contained full details of his account but nothing in the envelope about my account; could this be considered a 'clerical error'? Clearly we have differing opinions as to definitions of 'clerical' and 'error'. And so it goes; I have had solicitors, lawyers, an MSP and a Peer of the Realm acting on my behalf with regard to the behaviour of this QANGO but to no avail. They clearly believe themselves to be above the law: I believe them to be acting outwith the law. Just another bunch of cheap crooks. This year I am being less 'polite'. Take heart all you folks who get understandably worried by these cheap gangster tactics; remember the Nuremburg Trials? These guys are no different...just following orders!