Unlicensed Vehicles

HC Deb 11 June 2003 vol 406 c854W

Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many unlicensed vehicles there have been on roads in Britain in 2002. [117851]

Mr. Jamieson

The most recent survey of Vehicle Excise Duty evasion, covering 2002 and published in March 2003, estimated that some 1.75 million vehicles were unlicensed in Great Britain, against approximately 30 million licensed vehicles.