Came across the following website in a trade journal

http://www.askmid.com/

Type in a car registration and it tells you if it's insured or not,
supposed to only use it for the following purposes

I confirm that the vehicle detailed above is registered, owned or
insured by either my employer or myself and is regularly driven by me.
I understand it is an offence to wrongfully obtain information of this
nature without reasonable cause 

When you insure a car your insurers have to place the details on the
Motor Insurance Database, this the database the police use, also the
post office when you don't have to produce an insurance certificate to
tax your car

I'm sure you will only use it for the above purposes

I might use it to check mine is.

Unfortunately there are many stories of TC's confiscating cars, even when a 
certificate says it is insured, when the data base says it isn't.

"Steve Walford"  wrote in message 
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> Came across the following website in a trade journal
>
> http://www.askmid.com/
>
> Type in a car registration and it tells you if it's insured or not,
> supposed to only use it for the following purposes
>
> I confirm that the vehicle detailed above is registered, owned or
> insured by either my employer or myself and is regularly driven by me.
> I understand it is an offence to wrongfully obtain information of this
> nature without reasonable cause
>
> When you insure a car your insurers have to place the details on the
> Motor Insurance Database, this the database the police use, also the
> post office when you don't have to produce an insurance certificate to
> tax your car
>
> I'm sure you will only use it for the above purposes