Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what change there has been in the number of (a) untaxed vehicles, (b) uninsured vehicles and (c) vehicles without an MOT in the last five years.

The latest available figures are the Vehicle Excise Duty Evasion Statistics which were published in November 2015. A time series back to 2007 can be found in table VED0101 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/ved01-unlicensed-vehicles#table-ved0101 .

Official figures on the number of uninsured vehicles are not available. However, the Motor Insurers’ Bureau estimates that at the end of 2016 one million vehicles were uninsured compared with 1.26 million vehicles at the end of 2011.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency does not hold information about the number of vehicles without an MoT.