Driving Licences
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people have been disqualified or suspended from driving due to not holding a valid insurance policy over the last 12 months.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood
The courts are responsible for convicting and sentencing individuals for road traffic offences and notify the DVLA of any driving endorsement ordered following a conviction and sentence.
The offence of using a motor vehicle while uninsured is represented by DVLA offence code IN10. Should an individual be convicted of offence IN10 they could face a fine, 6 to 8 penalty points or a period of disqualification. There were 2,564 drivers between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025 where a disqualification was recorded against offence code IN10 on the driver record.
There is a possibility that there could be some records where someone has been disqualified for multiple offences where an IN10 was one of those offences, but the disqualification may not be recorded against IN10 in the statistics.
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