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Figures show a massive increase of untaxed vehicles, but a slight drop in vehicles without insurance.
Analysis of the MoJ figures by the AA also identified that driving without vehicle tax rose to an all-time high of 99,694 convictions, a year-on-year increase of 94 per cent.
'It is concerning that driving without tax almost doubled in a year,' Cousens said. 'While too early to tell if this rise is related to the cost of living, the high conviction rates should serve as a deterrent not to dodge paying for a virtual tax disc.'
Similarly, drivers failing to comply with red lights and signs were at a 12-year high of 11,940 guilty verdicts.
Elsewhere, court cases for speeding offences fell by 8 per cent with more than 203,500 guilty verdicts handed to drivers.
When looking at motor insurance cases, driving a vehicle without insurance fell to 71,458 last year (76,390 in 2022), but keeping a vehicle without insurance reaching a four year high (58,690 in 2023 vs 40,392 in 2022).
Drink and drug driving related cases, seatbelt offences and driving whilst disqualified also remained at similar levels to 2022.
In total, 732,758 drivers were in the dock for motoring related offences with 672,901 being found guilty – a conviction rate of 92 per cent, showing that drivers sat in front of a judge or magistrate are unlikely to get away with it.
Motoring offences also took up the lion's share of the courts time, with three in every five cases being for driving misdemeanours, the MoJ stats suggest.
