Question follow-through · 84786
Driving Licences
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people hold a valid (a) provisional and (b) full UK driving licence.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people hold a valid (a) provisional and (b) full UK driving licence.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
The table below shows the number of full and provisional licence holders on 11 October 2025. Full licence holders42,795,544Provisional licence holders10,502,938Total53,298,482
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Driving Tests
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