Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people applied for an international driving licence in each month in each of the last five years.
Monthly information on the number of international driving permits is only available from February 2019 and is shown below:
Month | IDPs issued |
February | 65,923 |
March | 282,398 |
April | 163,274 |
May | 43,555 |
June | 28,570 |
Prior to February 2019, the AA, RAC and the Post Office issued IDPs. Collectively they issued around 100,000 IDPs annually.