Driving Licences: Asylum
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people who were applying for asylum have been issued with a driving licence since 2020.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
To be issued with a driving licence, the law requires that the applicant is both normally and lawfully resident in GB. Individuals who are subject to immigration control must have been granted either leave to remain or leave to enter the country by the Home Office before a licence will be issued.
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