Department for Transport written question – answered at on 15 July 2026.
Richard Holden
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Question 8103, which foreign missions have i.) requested and ii.) received a personalised registration number; and how many personal registration numbers do each of those foreign missions have.
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) may issue a personalised registration number to a foreign mission on request, subject to availability. Any foreign mission is able to have a maximum of two personalised registration numbers at any given time.
The table below show which foreign missions have been issued with one or two personalised registrations.
Foreign missions with one personalised registration | |
Afghanistan | Korea |
Angola | Kosovo |
Antigua & Barbuda | Kuwait |
Argentina | Latvia |
Armenia | Lebanon |
Australia High Commission | Lesotho |
Austria | Liberia |
Bangladesh | Libyan |
Belgium | Lithuania |
Belize | Luxembourg |
Bolivia | Madagascar |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Malaysia |
Botswana | Maldives |
Brazil | Malta |
Bulgaria | Mauritania |
Burundi | Mauritius |
Cambodia | Mexico |
Cameroon | Moldova |
Canada | Morocco |
Chile | Mozambique |
China | Montenegro |
Columbia | Myanmar |
Nepal | |
Cote d’Ivoire | Norway |
Croatia | Oman |
Cuba | Pakistan |
Cyprus | Panama |
Czech Republic | Papua New Guinea |
Democratic people`s republic of Korea | Peru |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | Philippines |
Denmark | Qatar |
Dominica High Commission | Romania |
Dominican Republic | Rwanda |
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts | Saint Kitts & Nevis |
Ecuador | Senegal |
El Salvador | Sierra Leone |
Estonia | Singapore |
Ethiopia | Slovakia |
European Delegation to the UK | Slovenia |
Fiji | South Africa High Commission |
Finland | |
France | Spain |
Gabon | Sri Lanka |
Gambia | St Lucia |
Georgia | St Vincent & Grenadines |
Germany | Sudan |
Greece | Sweden |
Grenada | Tajikistan |
Guinea | Tanzania |
Guyana | Tonga |
Haiti | Trinidad & Tobago |
Honduras | Tunisia |
Hungary | Turkmenistan |
Iceland | Uganda |
International Maritime Organisation | Ukraine |
India | Uruguay |
Indonesia | Uzbekistan |
Iran | Victoria (consulate) |
Italy | Vietnam |
Jamaica | |
Japan | Yemen |
Jordan | Zambia |
Kazakhstan | Zimbabwe |
Kenya | |
Foreign missions with two personalised registrations | |
Brunei | |
Ghana | |
Netherlands | |
New Zealand | |
Nigeria | |
Portugal | |
Russian Federation | |
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