Driving Licences: Applications

(asked on 9th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average time taken for the DVLA to process driving license applications was in each of the last five years for which data is available; and what the target time was for each of those years.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 14th March 2022

The average time taken for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to process driving licence applications in each of the last five years is shown in the table below.

Year

To dispatch a:

Average days to issue

2016/17

Ordinary driving licence

1.62

Vocational driving licence

1.39

2017/18

Ordinary driving licence

1.53

Vocational driving licence

1.81

2018/19

Ordinary driving licence

1.57

Vocational driving licence

2.33

2019/20

Ordinary driving licence

1.41

Vocational driving licence

2.42

2020/21

Ordinary driving licence online

2.00

Vocational driving licence online

2.00

Ordinary driving licence by post

14.34

Vocational driving licence by post

6.71

The processing of paper applications in 2020/21 was impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Performance against targets is published annually in the DVLA’s annual report and accounts and is available online here.

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