Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

  1. DVLA Coronavirus (COVID-19) update
  2. Tax your vehicle
  3. Sold or bought a vehicle
  4. Check if a vehicle is taxed and has an MOT
  5. View or share your driving licence
  6. Get vehicle information from DVLA
  7. Driving licences
  8. Make a SORN
  9. Contact DVLA
  10. Health and medical conditions

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Tell DVLA you've changed your address

What to do if you need to change your address on your photocard driving licence or vehicle log book (V5C)

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Statutory guidance

Applications for renewing lorry and bus driving licences at age 45 and over during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

This legal notice is for bus and lorry drivers aged 45 and over who currently need to renew their licences. If you are in this category, you must read this notice.

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Service

DVLA Contact Centre

Please only call if it is urgent. If you have sent in a paper application you don’t need to contact us. We have reduced staff in our office due to social distancing, and are processing your paper application as quickly as possible.

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Service

Tell DVLA you've sold a vehicle

What to do if you need to tell DVLA you’ve sold, transferred or bought a vehicle.

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Service

Renew a photocard licence

From June 4 2020, 10 year photocard licences that expire between 1 February 2020 and 31 August 2020 will be automatically extended for a period of 7 months from the date of expiry. You do not need to take any action.

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Service

Applying for a replacement licence

What to do to replace a lost, stolen or damaged driving licence.

Latest from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

  1. Vehicle tax rates (V149 and V149/1)
    • Guidance
  2. Request by a company for information from a vehicle’s record (form V888/2B)
    • Form
  3. Request by a company for keeper at date of event information (form V888/2A)
    • Form

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What the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency does

We’re the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), holding more than 49 million driver records and more than 40 million vehicle records. We collect around £6 billion a year in vehicle excise duty (VED).

DVLA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Transport.

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Services

  1. Tax your vehicle
  2. Check if a vehicle is taxed
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Guidance and regulation

  1. DVLA Coronavirus (COVID-19) update
    • Detailed guide
  2. Can I drive while my application is with DVLA? (INF188/6)
    • Promotional
See all guidance and regulation

News and communications

  1. DVLA launches online service to change address on vehicle log book (V5C)
    • Press release
  2. Drivers granted 7 month photocard licence extension
    • Press release
See all news and communications

Research and statistics

  1. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency – Research at DVLA
    • Research
  2. Motorcycles (VEH03)
    • Statistical data set
See all research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

  1. DVLA privacy policy
    • Policy paper
  2. DVLA’s environment policy: preventing pollution (INF123/1)
    • Policy paper
See all policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. DfT: prompt payment data 2019 to 2020
    • Transparency
  2. DVLA annual report and accounts 2019 to 2020
    • Corporate report
See all transparency and freedom of information releases

Our management

Julie Lennard
Julie Lennard
Chief Executive
Tony Ackroyd
Operations and Customer Services Director
Lynette Rose
Strategy, Policy & Communications Director
Rachael Cunningham
Finance Director
Andrew Falvey
Commercial Director
Brian Sullivan
Chief Technology Officer
Louise White
HR and Estates Director
Lesley Cowley OBE
Non-executive Chair
Jeremy Boss
Non-executive board member
Chris Morson
Non-executive board member
Emma West
Non-executive board member

Contact DVLA

How to contact DVLA

Contact Form: How to contact DVLA

Use the link to find the right number, email or address to contact DVLA about vehicle tax and registration, driving licences and drivers’ medical issues.

Events and Conferencing

The Richard Ley Development Centre
Upper Forest Way
Swansea Vale
Swansea
SA7 0AN
United Kingdom

Contact Form: Events and Conferencing

Make an FOI request

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
  3. Make a new request by contacting us using the details below.

Freedom of Information requests

Freedom of Information,
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency,
Longview Road,
Swansea
SA6 7JL
United Kingdom

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Corporate information

Jobs and contracts

  1. Working for DVLA
  2. Procurement at DVLA
  3. Jobs

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