Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with which (a) foreign countries and (b) administrative regions of foreign countries that issue their own driving licences his Department has an agreement for mutual recognition of documents; and whether his Department is taking steps to reach such agreement with other countries and regions.

The UK continues to exchange and recognise licences originating from all European Economic Area (EEA) countries. Arrangements are in place with all EEA countries for the recognition and exchange of the vast majority of GB licences.

Outside of the EEA, mutual driving licence exchange agreements are in place with the following designated countries:

Work is currently progressing on arrangements with a further seven countries:

I also recently met with an official delegation from Kenya to discuss existing arrangements with them as well.