You can most certainly SARN a government department, they are not above the law, contrary to what they might think! I have seen, on tv programmes, and been told by a debt collector that they have ways of finding out information which the ordinary person can't. The impression I got was that they have people 'on the inside' who pass out information.(posted 7989 days ago)SARN data covers manual (paper) records as well as computer information so try SARNing the debt collector first.