Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many drivers were caught driving without (a) a valid MOT, (b) car tax, (c) car insurance and (d) a driving licence by nationality in each of the last five years.

The Home Office does not hold all of the information requested.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on fixed penalty notices and other outcomes for motoring offences as part of its annual ‘Police powers and procedures: Other PACE powers, England and Wales’ statistical release. The latest data is available here: Other PACE powers, year ending March 2023 (second edition) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and covers the calendar year ending December 2022.

Data on the number of fixed penalty notices issued and other outcomes for “Driving licence-related offences”, “Vehicle insurance offences” and “Operator’s licence offences” is provided in table FPN_03 of the motoring offences data tables, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65b7ae3cc5aacc0013a68463/fixed-penalty-notices-and-other-motoring-offences-statistics-police-powers-and-procedures-year-ending-31-dec-2022.ods.

Information on “Miscellaneous motoring offences (excluding seat belt offences)” is also provided in table FPN_03 although it is not possible to break these offences down further.

The Home Office does not hold information on the specific offences of driving without a valid MOT or car tax.

Data on the nationality of driver’s licenses is not centrally held by the Home Office.