Question follow-through · 13328
Driving Licences
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving licences were issued to people born outside of the UK by nationality in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 8 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
8 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving licences were issued to people born outside of the UK by nationality in each of the last five years.
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2024
Answer published
The information requested is not available, as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency does not record the nationality of driving licence holders.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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