Personalised number plate sales soar: 'I own 220'

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Private plates are increasingly being seen as an investment, often never even being used on a car, say experts.

He says in the distant past the DVLA had seen personalised plates as an inconvenience, but in the 1990s changed its mind and chose to engage with the trade, making its vast pool of unused registrations available to the public.

The number of plates being put on a car for the first time has nearly doubled since 2014 to just under 450,000, according to the figures obtained by the BBC via a Freedom of Information request.

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Published On: 2025-02-02 @ 07:51:22 (17 hours ago)

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