§ Sir R. Russellasked the Minister of Transport how many persons were licensed to drive motor vehicles of all groups in Great Britain at the latest convenient date; and how many were issued with licences, and provisional licences, respectively, for the first time in the latest convenient period of 12 months.
§ Mr. Tom FraserInformation is not available about the number of licences for driving different groups of vehicles, but at 28th February, 1965, there were 301W altogether approximately 12,600,000 substantive and 1,700,000 provisional driving licences current.
No figures of the number of persons issued with driving licences for the first time are available but for comparison there were approximately 11,900,000 substantive and 1,500,000 provisional licences current at the corresponding time in 1964.