Department for Transport written question – answered at on 27 July 2021.
Philip Davies
Conservative, Shipley
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the guidance issued by the DVLA on the process for issuing and reissuing driving licences.
Philip Davies
Conservative, Shipley
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving licences the DVLA has issued in each of the last five years.
Rachel Maclean
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Guidance on how to apply for a driving licence is published on GOV.UK and can be found here.
The volume of driving licences issued in each of the last five years is shown in the table below:
Year | Number of Driving Licences Issued |
2016 – 2017 | 10.4 million |
2017 – 2018 | 11.2 million |
2018 – 2019 | 10.6 million |
2019 – 2020 | 11.2 million |
2020 – 2021 | 8.8 million |
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