Convictions of Non-UK Licence Holders

08/2025 FoIA response, DVLA ref. FOIR12577

The DVLA will create a licence record to hold endorsements for:

1. a non licence holder, typically for someone who has not obtained a licence or is underage, and
2. a non-GB licence holder, someone who holds a licence issued by another country.

The information held by the DVLA is provided below. This gives a monthly breakdown
of the number of non-GB licence holders and non-licence holder records created since
March 2022:

Non GB Licence Holders	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2022			2,879	1,590	2,561	1,045	2,014	2,431	2,341	1,662	2,023	999	19,545
2023	2,780	1,392	2,211	1,718	1,529	2,179	2,033	2,200	2,849	2,246	2,726	1,997	25,860
2024	2,060	1,576	1,790	2,556	2,155	1,886	2,005	2,290	2,759	3,315	3,373	2,075	27,840
2025	2,113	3,989	3,272	2,652	2,553	2,719							17,298
Total:	6,953	6,957	10,152	8,516	8,798	7,829	6,052	6,921	7,949	7,223	8,122	5,071	90,543
Non Licence holders	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2022			2,633	2,813	2,793	2,538	2,602	2,895	2,435	2,764	3,019	2,265	26,757
2023	2,659	2,854	2,900	2,545	2,770	2,807	2,702	2,775	2,311	2,531	2,805	2,484	32,143
2024	3,093	2,916	2,500	2,661	3,233	2,664	2,718	2,123	2,079	2,302	2,714	2,520	31,523
2025	2,996	2,905	3,443	2,962	2,931	2,197							17,434
Total:	8,748	8,675	11,476	10,981	11,727	10,206	8,022	7,793	6,825	7,597	8,538	7,269	107,857
Combined	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2022			5,512	4,403	5,354	3,583	4,616	5,326	4,776	4,426	5,042	3,264	46,302
2023	5,439	4,246	5,111	4,263	4,299	4,986	4,735	4,975	5,160	4,777	5,531	4,481	58,003
2024	5,153	4,492	4,290	5,217	5,388	4,550	4,723	4,413	4,838	5,617	6,087	4,595	59,363
2025	5,109	6,894	6,715	5,614	5,484	4,916							34,732
Total:	15,701	15,632	21,628	19,497	20,525	18,035	14,074	14,714	14,774	14,820	16,660	12,340	198,400