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Controversial GAY Number Plate Banned
20th April 2006
The car registration H8 GAY has been withdrawn by DVLA following complaints by an MP and others that it could be seen as homophobic. It was claimed that the plate was likely to be read as "hate gay".
The DVLA initially refused to withdraw the registration, saying that there were no issues on the grounds of "political, racial or religious sensitivities", but after gay Labour MP Chris Bryant complained about it, Transport Secretary Alistair Darling ordered the DVLA revise its position. Furthermore, DVLA has now said it will not reissue the plate in future.
The controversial registration was bought as a joke by a gay couple, who displayed it on their blue Jaguar car. The couple have since moved to France.
One complainant who saw the plate said: "I was amazed. I just couldn't believe it had been allowed and I assumed it was being driven by a right bigot."
The DVLA has a policy whereby it withholds registration numbers "if they are likely to cause offence or embarrassment to the public on the grounds of political, racial and religious sensitivities or simply because they are in poor taste". The Agency decided that the number in question, when correctly spaced, does not fall into any of these categories.
Mr Bryant gave examples of H8 number plates which may prove offensive to ethnic and religious groups, saying: "If the DVLA sold [these plates], there would rightly be a public outcry.
"Clearly this goes beyond the realms of free speech and is a directly and deliberately offensive and abusive statement."
The DVLA initially refused to withdraw the registration, saying that there were no issues on the grounds of "political, racial or religious sensitivities", but after gay Labour MP Chris Bryant complained about it, Transport Secretary Alistair Darling ordered the DVLA revise its position. Furthermore, DVLA has now said it will not reissue the plate in future.
The controversial registration was bought as a joke by a gay couple, who displayed it on their blue Jaguar car. The couple have since moved to France.
One complainant who saw the plate said: "I was amazed. I just couldn't believe it had been allowed and I assumed it was being driven by a right bigot."
The DVLA has a policy whereby it withholds registration numbers "if they are likely to cause offence or embarrassment to the public on the grounds of political, racial and religious sensitivities or simply because they are in poor taste". The Agency decided that the number in question, when correctly spaced, does not fall into any of these categories.
Mr Bryant gave examples of H8 number plates which may prove offensive to ethnic and religious groups, saying: "If the DVLA sold [these plates], there would rightly be a public outcry.
"Clearly this goes beyond the realms of free speech and is a directly and deliberately offensive and abusive statement."
A friend of the couple who owned the Jaguar with the controversial registration number said that the owners has simply thought it was funny and had never imagined it would offend anyone.