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Department for Transport · Licensed vehicles at the end of the quarter, UK (DfT VEH0101)

Licensed vehicles

2026 Q1 Final

42,448,481vehicles

Licensed vehicles was 42,448,481 vehicles in 2026 Q1, up 1.3% (560,348) from 41,888,133 in 2025 Q1.

▲ 1.3% · +560,348 against 2025 Q1 (same quarter previous year)

  1. Department for Transport count
  2. 2026 Q1
  3. published 15 July 2026
  4. VEH0101a
  5. row “2026 Q1 (end March)”
  6. column “Total”
  7. cell value 42448.481

2026 Q1 is the highest figure in the published series: 42,448,481. Rule: highest of the 47 periods published here (2014 Q3 to 2026 Q1).

2014 Q3 to 2026 Q1

Licensed vehicles: 2014 Q3 to 2026 Q1CoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour020m40m20142016201820202022202420262014 Q3: 36,994,791 vehicles · published 15 July 20262014 Q4: 36,493,789 vehicles · published 15 July 20262015 Q1: 36,761,591 vehicles · published 15 July 20262015 Q2: 37,161,561 vehicles · published 15 July 20262015 Q3: 37,413,302 vehicles · published 15 July 20262015 Q4: 37,344,511 vehicles · published 15 July 20262016 Q1: 37,696,034 vehicles · published 15 July 20262016 Q2: 38,044,922 vehicles · published 15 July 20262016 Q3: 38,274,993 vehicles · published 15 July 20262016 Q4: 38,388,214 vehicles · published 15 July 20262017 Q1: 38,660,700 vehicles · published 15 July 20262017 Q2: 38,970,628 vehicles · published 15 July 20262017 Q3: 39,155,497 vehicles · published 15 July 20262017 Q4: 38,893,327 vehicles · published 15 July 20262018 Q1: 39,057,986 vehicles · published 15 July 20262018 Q2: 39,376,983 vehicles · published 15 July 20262018 Q3: 39,552,241 vehicles · published 15 July 20262018 Q4: 39,364,569 vehicles · published 15 July 20262019 Q1: 39,594,838 vehicles · published 15 July 20262019 Q2: 39,904,550 vehicles · published 15 July 20262019 Q3: 40,093,459 vehicles · published 15 July 20262019 Q4: 39,890,462 vehicles · published 15 July 20262020 Q1: 39,532,761 vehicles · published 15 July 20262020 Q2: 39,557,205 vehicles · published 15 July 20262020 Q3: 40,055,355 vehicles · published 15 July 20262020 Q4: 39,800,924 vehicles · published 15 July 20262021 Q1: 39,874,807 vehicles · published 15 July 20262021 Q2: 40,457,514 vehicles · published 15 July 20262021 Q3: 40,485,348 vehicles · published 15 July 20262021 Q4: 40,274,788 vehicles · published 15 July 20262022 Q1: 40,366,293 vehicles · published 15 July 20262022 Q2: 40,683,807 vehicles · published 15 July 20262022 Q3: 40,772,387 vehicles · published 15 July 20262022 Q4: 40,697,653 vehicles · published 15 July 20262023 Q1: 40,814,791 vehicles · published 15 July 20262023 Q2: 41,202,598 vehicles · published 15 July 20262023 Q3: 41,324,641 vehicles · published 15 July 20262023 Q4: 41,175,278 vehicles · published 15 July 20262024 Q1: 41,384,675 vehicles · published 15 July 20262024 Q2: 41,745,581 vehicles · published 15 July 20262024 Q3: 41,863,330 vehicles · published 15 July 20262024 Q4: 41,664,430 vehicles · published 15 July 20262025 Q1: 41,888,133 vehicles · published 15 July 20262025 Q2: 42,261,227 vehicles · published 15 July 20262025 Q3: 42,432,716 vehicles · published 15 July 20262025 Q4: 42,283,514 vehicles · published 15 July 20262026 Q1: 42,448,481 vehicles · published 15 July 2026
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What this measures

All vehicles of every body type licensed with DVLA in the UK at the end of the quarter.

What this doesn’t measure

Vehicles with a Statutory Off Road Notification, or vehicles never registered.

Important caveat

Counts come from the DVLA register and depend on keepers licensing vehicles; enforcement changes and the end of the paper tax disc in 2014 affected the count of unlicensed vehicles rather than this series. Before 2007 only end-December figures are published.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Department for Transport
Publication
Licensed vehicles at the end of the quarter, UK (DfT VEH0101)
Release
2026 Q1, published 15 July 2026
Source file
veh0101.ods
File SHA-256
b2ac3d32e34e665d8916244654c3ea002232c06c7c3b3fef98ca634391361b85
Retrieved
3 September 2026
Sheet
VEH0101a_Lic
Table
VEH0101a
Row
2026 Q1 (end March)
Column
Total
Cell value
42448.481 (× 1,000 = 42,448,481 vehicles)
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
vehicles
API
/api/metrics/licensed_vehicles · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–41,745,5812024 Q242,448,4812026 Q1↑ 1.7%
Conservative 2019–202440,093,4592019 Q341,745,5812024 Q2↑ 4.1%
Conservative 2017–201938,660,7002017 Q140,093,4592019 Q3↑ 3.7%
Conservative 2015–201736,761,5912015 Q138,660,7002017 Q1↑ 5.2%

Full comparison with chart

Release
2026 Q1 · publication page
Last updated
15 July 2026
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)