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Motor Vehicles: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the proportion of DVLA keeper records that are (a) missing and (b) falsified.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
9 Sept 2025
Target answer date
15 Sept 2025
Answer
15 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the proportion of DVLA keeper records that are (a) missing and (b) falsified.

  2. 15 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The latest available data shows that more than 93 per cent of vehicle keepers are contactable and traceable based on the information held on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s (DVLA) records. Of the remainder, around six per cent of vehicles are in...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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