Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people were registered for the Blue Badge scheme in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.

The Department does not hold data on the number of people who have registered for the Blue Badge scheme.

The Department collects statistics on the number of valid Blue Badges on issue and issued to eligible people and organisations. The table below shows the total number of Blue Badges on issue in England as at 31 March in 2013 and 2014. The Department does not hold data for 2015.

These results are published in table DIS0101, available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/397062/dis0101.xls