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Services

• Tax your vehicle

  Renew or tax your vehicle for the first time using a reminder letter, your log book, the 'new keeper's details' section of a log book - and how to tax if you don't have any documents

• Check the MOT history of a vehicle

  Check the MOT history of a vehicle from 2005 onwards, including if it passed or failed, its mileage and why it failed

• Check if a vehicle is taxed

  Check and report if a vehicle has up-to-date vehicle tax or is 'off road' (SORN)

• View or share your driving licence information

  Find out what information DVLA holds about your driving licence or create a check code to share your driving record, for example to hire a car

• Check the MOT status of a vehicle

  Find out the MOT test status of a vehicle - check the date of the MOT test, the odometer reading (mileage) and the expiry date of an MOT test pass

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Guidance and regulation

• The Highway Code

  Manual

  27 June 2018

  Department for Transport

• 'Show me, tell me' questions: car driving test

  Guidance

  4 December 2017

  Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

• Vehicle tax rates (V149 and V149/1)

  Guidance

  1 April 2018

  Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

• Driving in the EU if there's no Brexit deal
  • Guidance
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Transport
• MOT inspection checklist: cars and passengers vehicles
  • Guidance
  • 18 July 2013
  • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

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News and communications

Collision between a freight train and a utility vehicle in Dollands Moor yard

21 September 2018

Rail Accident Investigation Branch

News story

1. United Coaches Ltd
   • 20 September 2018
   • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
   • Decision
2. Lindsay Craft T/A Scrap A Car Scotland and Scrap A Car Scotland.com
   • 20 September 2018
   • Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
   • Decision
3. Government announces 'root and branch' review of rail
   • 20 September 2018
   • Department for Transport
   • News story
4. Innovative ideas to transform UK rail in line to bid for millions in government grants
   • 19 September 2018
   • Department for Transport and Innovate UK
   • News story

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Research and statistics

• Quarterly traffic estimates (TRA25)
  • 20 September 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Statistical data set
• Travel time measures for the Strategic Road Network and local ‘A’ roads: July 2017 to June 2018
  • 20 September 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • National statistics
• Department for Transport – Statistics at DfT
  • 20 September 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Statistics
• Passenger and freight rail performance: April to June 2018
  • 20 September 2018
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • National statistics
• Signals passed at danger (SPADs): April to June 2018
  • 20 September 2018
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Official statistics

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Policy and engagement

• HS2 Phase One Compulsory Purchase: General Vesting Declarations for South Northamptonshire
  • 21 September 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Policy paper
• HS2 construction noise and vibration methodology report
  • 20 September 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Policy paper
• Monitoring noise and vibration on the HS2 Phase One route (July 2018)
  • 20 September 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Impact assessment
• Monitoring noise and vibration on the HS2 Phase One route (June 2018)
  • 20 September 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Impact assessment
• Monitoring noise and vibration on the HS2 Phase One route (April 2018)
  • 20 September 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Impact assessment

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Transparency

• M58 accident data and clover leaf junctions
  • 21 September 2018
  • Highways England
  • Foi release
• HS2 Chiltern AONB Review Group meeting minutes
  • 20 September 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Transparency
• Temporary speed limit - M6 junctions 26 to 27
  • 20 September 2018
  • Highways England
  • Foi release
• Longer semi-trailer trial evaluation: annual report 2017
  • 19 September 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Corporate report
• Highways England fleet vehicles
  • 18 September 2018
  • Highways England
  • Foi release

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Organisations

1. Department for Transport
2. Maritime & Coastguard Agency
3. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
4. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
5. Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain

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1. Marine Management Organisation
2. Office for Low Emission Vehicles
3. HM Revenue & Customs
4. HM Treasury
5. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
6. Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
7. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
8. Home Office
9. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
10. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
11. Ministry of Defence
12. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
13. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
14. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
15. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
16. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
17. Defence and Security Accelerator
18. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
19. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
20. Border Force
21. Cabinet Office
22. East West Railway Company Limited
23. Department for Work & Pensions
24. Ministry of Justice
25. Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
26. Department for International Trade
27. Infrastructure and Projects Authority
28. Northern Ireland Office
29. UK Visas and Immigration
30. Defence Safety Authority
31. Department for Education
32. Department of Health & Social Care
33. Government Office for Science
34. Immigration Enforcement
35. Office of the Leader of the House of Lords
36. UK Export Finance

1. Air Accidents Investigation Branch
2. Marine Accident Investigation Branch
3. High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
4. Highways England
5. Rail Accident Investigation Branch
6. UK Space Agency
7. Innovate UK
8. Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee
9. Military Aviation Authority
10. Environment Agency
11. DfT OLR Holdings Limited
12. Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
13. HM Land Registry
14. Regulatory Policy Committee
15. Forensic Science Regulator
16. Competition and Markets Authority
17. Low Pay Commission
18. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
19. UK Hydrographic Office
20. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales