Universal Credit
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Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new drivers had their licences revoked as a result of insurance offences in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 8th April 2014
The Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995 requires that drivers who accumulate six or more penalty points during their probationary period will have their licences revoked. The accumulation of offences can be for any reason. The table shows the number of drivers whose licences were revoked under the New Drivers Act who committed at least one insurance offence:
| Year | Number of licences revoked |
| 2010 | 4,372 |
| 2011 | 5,921 |
| 2012 | 5,897 |
| 2013 | 5,606 |
| 2014 (up to 29 March) | 1,118 |
| Total | 22,914 |