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Written Question
Driving: Disqualification
Thursday 10th April 2025

Asked by: Lord Frost (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many drivers were disqualified from driving in (1) 2022, (2) 2023 and (3) 2024 in the United Kingdom.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

The table below shows the number of disqualifications from driving for each of the years requested. The figures also include disqualifications imposed in the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland that apply in Great Britain, under arrangements for the mutual recognition of driving disqualifications.

2022

134,078

2023

127,557

2024

131,628

These figures are for Great Britain only. Driver licensing is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland.