The number of registered chauffeur driven cars doubled between the year 2016 and 2017, figures tabled in parliament this evening show.

In 2016, 127 chauffeur driven cars were registered, up by just six from the previous year (2015). However, the figure more than doubled in the year 2017, when 275 were registered.

Minister for Transport Ian Borg presented these findings in response to a question by Nationalist MP Toni Bezzina. The number in 2017 was almost four times that of 2013, where 73 chauffeur driven cars were registered, the least amount over the five-year period.

So far, in 2018, the table shows that 31 chauffeur driven cars were registered in January, the highest number in a single month, when observing the numbers month by month from the previous five years.