Question follow-through · 43305
Motor Vehicles: Insurance and Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring drivers to display proof of (a) insurance and (b) MOT in vehicles.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring drivers to display proof of (a) insurance and (b) MOT in vehicles.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
We have no plans to require drivers to display evidence of insurance in their vehicles, as it would only demonstrate insurance cover at one point in time, which may have since been cancelled. Uninsured driving is tackled by Continuous Insurance Enforcemen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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