{
 "id": "blue-badges-england",
 "title": "Blue Badges held, England",
 "category": "transport",
 "summary": "Valid Blue Badges held by disabled people and organisations in England at 31 March each year since 1997, from the Department for Transport's Blue Badge scheme statistics.",
 "unit": "thousands",
 "chart": "line",
 "volatile": false,
 "status": "",
 "notes": [
  "Valid Blue Badges held at 31 March each year in England, in thousands as DfT rounds them, by people who qualify without further assessment, people who qualify subject to further assessment by their council, and organisations. DfT marks breaks in the series in 2009 and 2019, when the way badges were recorded changed: it says the badges held from the year ending March 2019 cannot be compared with earlier years, so each run of years is a line of its own. Holders as a share of England's population are in the record's JSON.",
  "DfT publishes these as accredited official statistics."
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "publisher": "Department for Transport",
  "publisher_url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport",
  "source_page": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-data-tables-dis",
  "licence": "OGL-3.0",
  "licence_name": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T14:49:49Z",
  "raw_files": [
   {
    "name": "page.json",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistical-data-sets/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-data-tables-dis",
    "sha256": "43915f2a233a9aa4bf1287efa100a32b10da130a80c55ae3593b2e14281a2738",
    "bytes": 4186,
    "content_type": "application/json"
   },
   {
    "name": "table.ods",
    "url": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69b966eb635612b767a4664a/dis0101.ods",
    "sha256": "05fcd683a1244830352d3da75bbc6a3640102b23b91d9ccce247d5b6d3fedeb3",
    "bytes": 8440,
    "content_type": "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet"
   }
  ]
 },
 "meta": {
  "latest_period": "2025-03-31",
  "population_share": {
   "Blue Badges held, 1997 to 2009": {
    "1997-03-31": 3.4,
    "1998-03-31": 3.5,
    "1999-03-31": 3.7,
    "2000-03-31": 3.8,
    "2001-03-31": 3.9,
    "2002-03-31": 4.1,
    "2003-03-31": 4.1,
    "2004-03-31": 4.1,
    "2005-03-31": 4.2,
    "2006-03-31": 4.5,
    "2007-03-31": 4.5,
    "2008-03-31": 4.7,
    "2009-03-31": 4.8
   },
   "Blue Badges held, 2009 to 2018": {
    "2009-03-31": 5.0,
    "2010-03-31": 5.0,
    "2011-03-31": 5.0,
    "2012-03-31": 4.9,
    "2013-03-31": 4.8,
    "2014-03-31": 4.6,
    "2015-03-31": 4.4,
    "2016-03-31": 4.3,
    "2017-03-31": 4.3,
    "2018-03-31": 4.2
   },
   "Blue Badges held, from 2019": {
    "2019-03-31": 4.1,
    "2020-03-31": 4.3,
    "2021-03-31": 4.2,
    "2022-03-31": 4.3,
    "2023-03-31": 4.6,
    "2024-03-31": 4.9,
    "2025-03-31": 5.2
   }
  },
  "govuk_page": "/government/statistical-data-sets/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-data-tables-dis",
  "govuk_page_title": "Blue Badge scheme statistics: data tables (DIS)",
  "attachment_title": "Valid Blue Badges held by disabled people by category with population measures in England",
  "accreditation": "Accredited official statistics: DIS0101 says its figures are accredited official statistics; GOV.UK's data set page states no standing"
 },
 "headline": {
  "label": "Valid Blue Badges held",
  "value": 3065.0,
  "period": "2025-03-31",
  "note": "5.2% of the population"
 },
 "series": [
  {
   "name": "Blue Badges held, 1997 to 2009",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "1997-03-31",
     "v": 1636.0
    },
    {
     "x": "1998-03-31",
     "v": 1713.0
    },
    {
     "x": "1999-03-31",
     "v": 1821.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2000-03-31",
     "v": 1854.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2001-03-31",
     "v": 1925.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2002-03-31",
     "v": 2019.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2003-03-31",
     "v": 2030.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2004-03-31",
     "v": 2054.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2005-03-31",
     "v": 2092.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2006-03-31",
     "v": 2258.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2007-03-31",
     "v": 2307.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2008-03-31",
     "v": 2398.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2009-03-31",
     "v": 2475.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2010-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2011-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2012-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2013-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2014-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2015-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2016-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2017-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2018-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2019-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2020-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2021-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2022-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2023-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2024-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2025-03-31",
     "v": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Blue Badges held, 2009 to 2018",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "1997-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "1998-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "1999-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2000-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2001-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2002-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2003-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2004-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2005-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2006-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2007-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2008-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2009-03-31",
     "v": 2575.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2010-03-31",
     "v": 2629.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2011-03-31",
     "v": 2636.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2012-03-31",
     "v": 2589.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2013-03-31",
     "v": 2571.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2014-03-31",
     "v": 2465.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2015-03-31",
     "v": 2394.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2016-03-31",
     "v": 2378.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2017-03-31",
     "v": 2382.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2018-03-31",
     "v": 2354.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2019-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2020-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2021-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2022-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2023-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2024-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2025-03-31",
     "v": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Blue Badges held, from 2019",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "1997-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "1998-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "1999-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2000-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2001-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2002-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2003-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2004-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2005-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2006-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2007-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2008-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2009-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2010-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2011-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2012-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2013-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2014-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2015-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2016-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2017-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2018-03-31",
     "v": null
    },
    {
     "x": "2019-03-31",
     "v": 2294.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020-03-31",
     "v": 2444.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021-03-31",
     "v": 2352.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022-03-31",
     "v": 2436.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023-03-31",
     "v": 2574.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2024-03-31",
     "v": 2837.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2025-03-31",
     "v": 3065.0
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}