Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many V890 application forms were received by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority in 2023; and what the average waiting time was for approving those applications.
The table below shows the total number and average waiting time of manual and digital applications processed in 2023.
| Manual applications | Digital applications | ||
| Total number processed | Average processing time (in working days) | Total number processed | Average processing time |
V5C Vehicle Registration Certificate | 2,541,989 | 4 | 14,497,650 These transactions are not available separately | The average waiting time to process digital applications is not readily available but is typically one day if the transaction is successful and casework or medical enquiries are not required. |
V62 Application for a Vehicle Registration Certificate | 1,499,893 | 9 | ||
V890 Statutory Off Road Notification | 62,769 | 1 | 2,381,559 | |
V317 Application to keep/transfer a vehicle registration number | 115,168 | 4 | 1,002,687 | |
D1 – non medical Application for a driving licence | 1,716,073 | 6 | 7,622,328 | |
D2 – non medical Application for lorry, bus or minibus driving licence | 284,980 | 5 | 62,982 | |
D1 - medical Application for a driving licence | 309,395 | 63 | 55,802 | |
D2 - medical Application for lorry, bus or minibus driving licence | 90,273 | 55 | This service is not offered online | |
D777B Application for a driver digital tachograph card | 22,488 | 3 | 159,888 |
For the figures above, the mode average has been used to calculate the number of average processing days.