{"value":{"id":1680331,"askingMemberId":1409,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2024-01-08T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2024-01-11T00:00:00","uin":"8344","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Blue Badges were issued in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, and (d) Northern Ireland in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021, (iii) 2022 and (iv) 2023.","answeringBodyId":27,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Transport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4142,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2024-01-11T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Blue Badge schemes in England, Scotland and Wales are devolved with each country running its own Blue Badge scheme and collecting/publishing its own statistics. The Department for Transport publishes annual statistics in relation to the Blue Badge scheme in England only.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of Blue Badges issued in England are:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year ending March 2020</p></td><td><p>966,002</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year ending March 2021</p></td><td><p>824,239</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year ending March 2022</p></td><td><p>1,036,054</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Statistics for 2023 will be published in January 2024.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Blue Badge Scheme","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1680331","method":"GET"}]}