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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

• MOT inspection checklist: cars and passengers vehicles
  • Guidance
  • 18 July 2013
  • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• MOT inspection manual: cars and passenger vehicles
  • Statutory guidance
  • 20 May 2018
  • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

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News and communications

18 October 2018 — News story

Clean maritime revolution starts voyage

Department for Transport

1. Changes to UK aviation security
   • 18 October 2018
   • Department for Transport
   • News story
2. Highways England working in tandem with Sustrans to help cyclists
   • 18 October 2018
   • Highways England
   • Press release
3. Interim report 01/2018: Loss of speed restrictions on the Cambrian line
   • 18 October 2018
   • Rail Accident Investigation Branch
   • Press release
4. Review of Highway Code set to empower cyclists and pedestrians
   • 18 October 2018
   • Department for Transport
   • News story

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Research and statistics

• Safety digest 11/2018: Dundee
  • 19 October 2018
  • Rail Accident Investigation Branch
  • Independent report
• National cycleway feasibility study associated with HS2
  • 18 October 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Research
• Rail infrastructure, assets and environmental statistics: 2017 to 2018
  • 18 October 2018
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • National statistics
• Economic impact of new and improved rail lines: case studies and method
  • 17 October 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Research
• Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency – Research at DVLA
  • 17 October 2018
  • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Implementation of the ILO Work in Fishing Convention 2007 (ILO 188) into UK Law 19 October 2018

  Maritime and Coastguard Agency

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 12 January 2018

• Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS) safety review 18 October 2018

  Department for Transport

  Closed consultation

  Date closed 01 June 2018

• Inclusive Transport Strategy
  • 18 October 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper
• Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations exemption orders: annual report 2017
  • 16 October 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper
• HS2 Phase One annual air quality report 2017
  • 15 October 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Impact assessment

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Safety digest 11/2017: Dundee
  • 19 October 2018
  • Rail Accident Investigation Branch
  • Raib report
• HS2 Phase One planning forum: heritage subgroup meeting resources 2018
  • 18 October 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Transparency
• HS2 Phase One planning forum: heritage subgroup meeting minutes 2018
  • 18 October 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Transparency
• HS2 Ltd spend over £500: April to June 2018
  • 18 October 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Transparency
• HS2 Ltd spend over £500: October to December 2017
  • 18 October 2018
  • High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
  • Transparency

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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. Border Force
20. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
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. Environment Agency
10. Military Aviation Authority
11. Regulatory Policy Committee
12. DfT OLR Holdings Limited
13. HM Land Registry
14. Forensic Science Regulator
15. Competition and Markets Authority
16. Low Pay Commission
17. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
18. UK Hydrographic Office
19. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales