Vehicle Number Plates

(asked on 22nd June 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department 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.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 25th June 2026

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

Commonwealth Secretariat

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

South Australia

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

Western Australia

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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