Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Telephone Services

(asked on 28th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of (1) the average wait time for callers to DVLA helplines, and (2) the number of callers on average each day who are cut off without a response.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 9th March 2022

The average wait time for callers to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to speak to an advisor for the week commencing 21 February was 13 minutes 14 seconds.

During the same week, the average number of callers each day who received a message saying all lines were busy and asking them to try again later was 32,214.

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