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Motor Vehicles: Registration

Asked by Jim McMahonLabour (Co-op)Department for TransportTabled Answered 25 November 2025UIN 92073

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicle registration numbers are held on expired retention certificates; and what the estimated value of those registration numbers is.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

While the information requested about expired retention certificates may be available, it would need to be extracted from different databases and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.

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