Question follow-through · 82436
Motor Vehicles: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2025 to Question 74032 on Motor vehicles: registration, how many vehicles account for the remaining 7 per cent of vehicles identified that are neither contactable or tracea
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2025 to Question 74032 on Motor vehicles: registration, how many vehicles account for the remaining 7 per cent of vehicles identified that are neither contactable or tracea
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
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20 Oct 2025
Answer published
The latest available data shows that of the 52,898,866 vehicles on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)’s vehicle database, 49,270,958 are contactable and traceable based on the information held on the DVLA’s records. Of the remainder it is esti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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