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- Learn to drive a car: step by step
- Apply for your first provisional driving licence
- View or share your driving licence information
- Tell DVLA you've changed address: step by step
- Replace a lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed driving licence
- Renew your driving licence
- Renew your driving licence if you're 70 or over
Legal obligations
Apply for a licence
- Apply for your first provisional driving licence
- Identity documents needed for a driving licence application
- Track your driving licence application
- Apply for your full driving licence
View a licence
Lost or stolen driving licence
Update your licence
- Tell DVLA you've changed address: step by step
- Change the address on your driving licence
- Change the name or gender on your driving licence
- Change the photo on your driving licence
Renew, reapply or exchange your licence
- Renew your driving licence
- Renew your driving licence if you're 70 or over
- Renew your short-term medical driving licence
- Exchange your paper driving licence for a photocard licence
- Reapply for a driving licence following a medical condition
- Reapply for your driving licence if you've been disqualified
- Exchange a foreign driving licence
- Driving in Great Britain on a non-GB licence
- Driving licence fees
- Download and order DVLA forms
Upgrade your licence
- Adding categories to your driving licence
- Upgrade an automatic car driving licence to a manual one
- Driving licence fees
- Driving a motorhome
- Driving a minibus
Towing a trailer
- Towing with a car
- Tow a trailer or caravan with a car: safety checks
- Towing: licence and age requirements
Give up your licence
Tell DVLA a driver has died
Codes, categories and points
- Vehicles you can drive
- Driving licence categories
- Driving a van
- Driving a minibus
- Driving a motorhome
- Driving licence codes
- Penalty points (endorsements)
- Compare old and new driving licence categories
- Vehicle weights explained
Contact DVLA
Browse: Driving and transport
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Driving licences
Apply for, renew or update your licence, view or share your driving licence, add new categories
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Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance
Pay or cancel vehicle tax, register your vehicle off road, book or check an MOT, insurance
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Driving tests and learning to drive or ride
Find driving lessons, book and manage theory and driving tests, tests for different vehicles
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Number plates, vehicle registration and log books
Update details in your (V5C) log book, get a personalised number plate or trade licence plate
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Buy, sell or scrap a vehicle
Buy or sell a vehicle, check a used vehicle, written off vehicles, scrapping a vehicle
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Driving with medical conditions, Blue Badges and public transport for disabled people
Check and report your medical condition, get a Blue Badge, mobility scooters and bus passes
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The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules
Rules for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, road and boat safety
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Vehicle and driver data and information
Get vehicle information, check MOT history, check driving licence history
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Penalty points, fines and driving bans
Penalties and fines, speeding, drink-driving, parking fines, appeals
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Driving in the UK and abroad
Drive abroad, drive in the UK with a foreign licence, bring a vehicle to the UK
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HGV, bus and coach drivers
Become a HGV or bus driver, find training, drivers' hours rules, specialist tests
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Transport and driving businesses
Vehicle operator licences, goods vehicle and bus and public service vehicle operators, employing drivers
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Teaching people to drive
Become an instructor, book and manage tests, manage your ADI registration
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Driving and enforcing the law
Legal obligations of drivers and riders, report a crime
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Parking, public transport and the environment
Public transport and bus passes, parking, environment and emissions
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Manufacture or adapt a vehicle
Get a vehicle approved, register a vehicle, manufacturing regulations
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- Environment and countryside
- Housing and local services
- Money and tax
- Passports, travel and living abroad
- Visas and immigration
- Working, jobs and pensions