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Seeks views on the amendments to licensing restrictions to address bus, coach and HGV driver shortages.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Seeking views on licence flexibility alterations including training requirements, vehicle type, towing allowance and eligible powertrains.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Executive summary In 2019, the UK committed to meeting net zero greenhouse…
This call for evidence will help identify areas where policy or legislative changes may be able to improve outcomes for drivers and other road users.
Foreword As Roads Minister, the safety of all road users is one of my key…
Rhagair Fel y Gweinidog Ffyrdd, mae diogelwch holl ddefnyddwyr y ffyrdd yn…
A proposal to extend the period that you can drive a car in Great Britain using a Ukrainian driving licence.
A call for evidence that seeks views on potential opportunities to improve our driving licensing regime.
This measure extends existing tax checks for taxi and scrap metal licences in England and Wales to licences in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
This consultation seeks your views on changing the Road Traffic Act 1988, as amended, to enable healthcare professionals other than registered medical practitioners (doctors with full General Medical Council (GMC) registrati…
How the UK government and devolved administrations propose to work together on driver licensing.
Proposed changes to driving licence upgrades if you take a test in an automatic vehicle, and reducing the motorcycle engine capacity needed for some tests.
This consultation seeks your views on allowing drivers who hold a licence to drive cars and light motorcycles issued originally in Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Ukraine and the Republic of North Macedonia, to exc…
This tax information and impact note is about a new tax check for applications to renew some licences. This will address part of the hidden economy. The hidden economy is sources of taxable income that have not been declared…
This measure introduces a new tax check for applications to renew some licenses. This will address part of the hidden economy. The hidden economy is sources of taxable income that have not been declared to HMRC.
Road safety statement and two-year action plan, addressing road safety issues throughout the lifetime of roads users.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
This is a post-implementation review (PIR) of the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2013.
This consultation seeks your views on allowing drivers who hold a licence to drive cars and light motorcycles which was issued originally in the Cayman Islands to exchange it for a British equivalent, if the driver becomes r…
Changes to regulations to support the take-up of alternatively fuelled light commercial vehicles.
This tax information and impact note will uprate, by Retail Price Index (RPI), the vehicle excise duty (VED) rates for vans, motorbikes and pre-2017 cars, as well as First Year Rates for cars under the post-April 2017 VED sy…
This proposal is to introduce an offence for anyone discovered to be holding more than one EU/EEA driving licence at any one time as per the Third European Directive.
The proposal is to allow drivers who hold a licence to drive large vehicles issued in Switzerland to exchange it for a British equivalent.
As a result of new EU definitions and standards to be implemented by December 2014, DVLA must change the law to remove some exemptions to the rules that cover driving licences.
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