Road Traffic Offences: British Nationals Abroad
(asked on 24th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many British citizens have been accused of (a) driving offences and (b) exceeding the speed limit when driving their UK-registered vehicle in (i) France, (ii) the European Union and (iii) the rest of the world in each of the last three years.
The number of sets of vehicle keeper data released by the DVLA following alleged motoring offences can be found in the table below. The DVLA first started receiving live requests for vehicle data from France in January 2019.
| France | EU (including France) | ||
Speeding Offences | Other Driving Offences | Speeding Offences | Other Driving Offences | |
2017 | - | - | 80,595 | 2,558 |
2018 | - | - | 237,172 | 22,906 |
2019 | 239,746 | 1,721 | 362,097 | 8,435 |
Between 2015 and 2017, 466 requests for information were received from outside of the EU for road traffic offences. Figures are not yet available for 2018.