Driving Licences
(asked on 29th August 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving licence (a) applications and (b) renewals breached the target timeframe for processing in each of the last five years; and in how many such cases the breach arose as a result of delays in medical assessments.
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) does not hold separate figures for applications for a driving licence and renewal applications which missed the target for processing. However, the total number of driving licence applications where the target time for processing has been breached is shown in the table below:
Year | Total number of all driving licence applications received including applications to renew a driving licence | Total number of applications for a driving licence, including applications to renew a licence, where the target was missed | Total number of applications for a driving licence, including applications to renew a licence, where the target was missed due to medical investigations |
2009-2010 | 8,794,140 | 184,398 | 48,146 |
2010-2011 | 9,716,576 | 318,982 | 58,825 |
2011-2012 | 9,834,914 | 98,086 | 57,552 |
2012-2013 | 9,769,331 | 194,751 | 77,764 |
2013-2014 | 10,233,837 | 241,437 | 63,963 |
The number of applications and renewal applications where the target was missed due to medical investigations also includes cases where the DVLA has been notified of a medical condition which requires further investigation. However, these notifications were not necessarily associated with an application for a driving licence or an application to renew a licence.