Question follow-through · 74316
Driving Licences: Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people who were applying for asylum have been issued with a driving licence since 2020.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Driving Licences · 10 Nov 2025
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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
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people who were applying for asylum have been issued with a driving licence since 2020.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2025
Answer published
To be issued with a driving licence, the law requires that the applicant is both normally and lawfully resident in GB. Individuals who are subject to immigration control must have been granted either leave to remain or leave to enter the country by the Ho...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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