Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made for the adequacy of waiting times for driving licence renewal where there are no limiting factors.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) aims to process all applications as quickly as possible. There are no delays in applications for a driving licence where there is no medical condition involved.

The DVLA’s target for driving licence applications is to dispatch 95 per cent within three working days for straightforward online applications and 90 per cent within ten working days for straightforward paper applications.

In the current financial year, the DVLA has achieved 100 per cent for online applications and 99.9 per cent for paper applications.