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Motor Vehicles: Insurance

Asked by Navendu MishraLabourDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 27 April 2026UIN 128841

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of uninsured drivers in (a) Stockport and (b) Greater Manchester.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

The Department for Transport has not made an estimate of the number of uninsured drivers in Stockport and Greater Manchester.

Across the country, the Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB) estimates that about 300,000 cars are being driven every day without insurance.

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