Driving licences

Legal obligations

• Legal obligations of drivers and riders

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

Renew, reapply or exchange your licence

• Renew your driving licence
• Renew your driving licence if you're 70 or over
• Driving licence renewal after 45: lorries, minibuses and buses
• 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
• Order DVLA forms

Your licence is lost or stolen

• Replace a lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed driving licence

View a licence

• View or share your driving licence information
• Check someone's driving licence information

Update your licence

• Tell DVLA you’ve changed address
• Change the address on your driving licence
• Change the name or gender on your driving licence
• Change the photo on your driving licence

Upgrade your licence

• Adding higher 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
• Car and trailer driving test
• Towing: licence and age requirements
• Cars and trailers

Give up your licence

• Surrendering your driving licence

Tell DVLA a driver has died

• Telling DVLA about a bereavement

Codes, categories and points

• Vehicles you can drive
• Driving licence categories
• Driving a minibus
• Driving a motorhome
• Driving licence codes
• Penalty points (endorsements)
• Compare old and new driving licence categories
• Vehicle weights explained

Contact DVLA

• Contact DVLA

Driving and transport

• Learning to drive and ride

  Provisional licences, driving lessons, booking and managing your tests and when you've passed

• Driving licences

  Includes applying, changing your address, fees and tracking your application

• Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance

  Taxing your vehicle or registering it as off the road, getting an MOT and vehicle insurance

• Buy, sell or scrap a vehicle

• Number plates, vehicle registration and log books

  Includes changing your address and personalised number plates

• Driving with medical conditions, Blue Badges and public transport if you're disabled

• Driving in the UK and abroad

  Check your eligibility to drive in the UK and abroad, and importing vehicles.

• Penalty points, fines and driving bans

• The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules

  Rules for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, traffic signs, road safety and boat safety

• Teaching people to drive

  Becoming an instructor, taking the qualifying tests, managing your registration and rules

• Lorry, bus and coach drivers

  Becoming a lorry, bus or coach driver, Driver CPC, roadside checks, carrying loads and vehicle tests

• Transport and driving businesses

  Operator licences for goods and public service vehicles, employing drivers, taxi licences and running MOT stations

• Manufacture or adapt a vehicle

• Parking, public transport and the environment

• Driving and enforcing the law

• Vehicle and driver data and information

• Vehicle tax and SORN

  Taxing your vehicle, costs, Direct Debit and SORN

• Vehicle and boat safety

  Includes disqualification, penalty points, vehicle recalls and registering boats

• MOT and vehicle insurance

  Includes getting an MOT, MOT fees and vehicle insurance

• Blue Badge, parking, local travel and the environment

  Information about parking permits, fines and wheel clamping

All categories

• Benefits
• Births, deaths, marriages and care
• Business and self-employed
• Childcare and parenting
• Citizenship and living in the UK
• Crime, justice and the law
• Disabled people
• Driving and transport
• Education and learning
• Employing people
• Environment and countryside
• Housing and local services
• Money and tax
• Passports, travel and living abroad
• Visas and immigration
• Working, jobs and pensions