The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) bans vehicle number plates that it considers rude, offensive, or otherwise unsuitable. Reporting says 76 specific registrations have been barred, with a wider set of “outlawed” combinations bringing the total to over 500 cases.
The DVLA uses a specialist panel to review new registration batches twice a year. The panel examines thousands of possible plate combinations and decides which should be blacklisted. Examples cited in reporting include plates such as “SH76 TTY” and “GO76 WAR.”
Across outlets, the core detail is consistent: DVLA checks proposed number plates in scheduled reviews and blocks certain combinations deemed inappropriate for public use. While one outlet frames the figure as “banned 76 number plates” and another emphasizes “over 500 outlawed,” both point to the same review process and the existence of multiple prohibited examples.
