HC Deb 16 February 1972 vol 831 c100W
66. Mr. Whitehead

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many representations he has received regarding the raising of the age of qualification for motor cycle licences.

Mr. Peyton

About 750.

72. Mr. English

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many driving licences have been issued which the actions of his own Department have subsequently made illegal.

Mr. Peyton

2,283 provisional licences which would otherwise have come into effect on the holder's 16th birthday did not do so as the result of the regulations raising the minimum age limit for riding motor cycles to 17. 903 of these have however since been exchanged for moped licences.