News and Comment

"Ghost plates" is a confusing term, and lazy journalism is making it worse

28 February 2025

Confusingly, the term "ghost plates" is used to describe many things. Lazy media reporting isn't helping.

Number plate news around the world: February 2025

20 February 2025

February 2025's snapshot of international number plates news. Hong Kong and Australia'super expensive number plates, number plate crime and more.

BBC reports private number plates sales double in a decade

03 February 2025

Neil Bircher's number plate GLO 5 at the RNC Rally in 2024

Figures from DVLA show approximately 500,000 personal registration sales in 2014 and 1.2 million sales in 2024, an increase of 140%

UK motoring news: January 2025

30 January 2025

A monthly snapshot of current UK news stories on the subjects of cars and driving: Invalid penalty charges, recalled cars remain on the road, a million cars un-serviced and more

Number plate news around the world: January 2025

23 January 2025

The latest news from the world of number plates.

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The role of DVLA

Car registrations and number plates, including personalised number plates, in the UK, are the responsibility of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, usually known as the DVLA. It issues new registrations twice a year and also maintains the central database that records details of all vehicles licensed to drive on UK roads, along with their keeper and registration information.

Regtransfers works closely with DVLA to complete registration transfers as quickly and efficiently as possible. Regtransfers is a DVLA-registered supplier of personalised number plates and is listed on the DVLA Personalised Registrations website. All number plates supplied by Regtransfers comply with DVLA's prescribed standards and regulations.

DVLA administers all UK registration transfers and issues updated registration documents when the registration number of a car is changed, or when a registration is removed from a vehicle and placed on a retention document in accordance with the DVLA Retention Scheme.

DVLA is a registered trade mark of the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency. Regtransfers is not affiliated to the DVLA or DVLA Personalised Registrations. Regtransfers is a recognised reseller of DVLA registrations.

Number plate regulations

When a car is on the road, it is an offence to display number plates bearing any number other than the vehicle's officially recorded registration number. If you purchase a private registration, learn how to transfer private plates before displaying the new number.

All registration number plates displayed on UK vehicles must comply with the official number plate regulations. DVLA oversees enforcement of number plates display regulations and maintains a register of approved manufacturers and retailers of vehicle number plates.

Regtransfers is not part of, and is not formally affiliated with DVLA.