Question follow-through · 47918
Motor Vehicles: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate has she made of the number of vehicles with a SORN certificate that are still being driven on the public highway.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate has she made of the number of vehicles with a SORN certificate that are still being driven on the public highway.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
The Department for Transport last carried out a roadside survey in 2023 which estimated the rate of vehicle excise duty evasion among vehicles seen on UK roads. The survey results were published on 7 December 2023 and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/go...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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