HC Deb 19 October 2001 vol 372 cc1366-7W
Mr. Andrew Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions how many motor vehicle registration numbers remained unissued at 1 September in the series:(a) two letters, up to four digits, (b) three letters, up to three digits, (c) up to four digits, two letters, (d) up to three digits, three letters, (e) three letters, up to three digits, year suffix and (f) year prefix, up to three digits, three letters for (i) England, (ii) Scotland and (iii) Wales. [8512]

Mr. Jamieson

[holding answer 18 October 2001]Approximate numbers of vehicle registration marks in categories(a) to (d) are as follows:

  1. (a) 49,000
  2. (b) 660,000
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  3. (c) 4.9 million
  4. (d) 7.2 million.

Exact figures cannot be provided as some marks from unissued series have been allocated periodically over the years, for instance to imported vehicles or made available through the DVLA sale of marks scheme. Information on the number of suffix or prefix combinations left unissued or details of the marks currently unassigned in England, Wales and Scotland is not available. It is estimated that there are hundreds of millions of such marks.

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