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Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA; Welsh: Asiantaeth Trwyddedu Gyrwyr a Cherbydau) is the organisation of the UK government responsible for maintaining a database of drivers in Great Britain and a database of vehicles for the entire United Kingdom. Its counterpart for drivers in Northern Ireland is the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA). The agency issues driving licences, organises collection of vehicle excise duty (also known as road tax and road fund licence) and sells personalised registrations. The DVLA is an executive agency of the Department for Transport (Df. T). The current Chief Executive of the agency is Oliver Morley.[1]The DVLA is based in Swansea, Wales, with a prominent 1.
Clase and offices in Swansea Vale. It was previously known as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre (DVLC). The agency previously had a network of 3.
Great Britain, known as the Local Office Network, where users could attend to apply for licences and transact other business, but in the early 2. December 2. 01. 3. The agency's work is consequently fully centralised in Swansea, with the majority of users having to transact remotely - by post or (for some transactions) by phone or online.[2]DVLA introduced Electronic Vehicle Licensing (EVL) in 2. However, customers still have the option to tax their vehicles via the Post Office. A seven- year contract enabling the Post Office to continue to process car tax applications was agreed in November 2.
History[edit]Originally, vehicle registration was the responsibility of Borough and County councils throughout Great Britain, a system created by the Motor Car Act 1. The licensing system was centralised in 1. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre (DVLC) in Swansea. In 1. 99. 0, the DVLC was renamed as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), becoming an executive agency of Department for Transport.[5]British Forces Germany civilian vehicles[edit]Civilian vehicles used in Germany by members of British Forces Germany or their families are registered with the DVLA on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.
Diplomatic and consular vehicles[edit]Official diplomatic and consular vehicles are registered with the DVLA on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. DVLA database[edit]The vehicle register held by DVLA is used in many ways. For example, by the DVLA itself to identify untaxed vehicles, and by outside agencies to identify keepers of cars entering central London who have not paid the congestion charge, or who exceed speed limits on a road that has speed cameras by matching the cars to their keepers utilising the DVLA database. The current DVLA vehicle register was built by EDS under a £5 million contract signed in 1. October 1. 99. 8, though actual implementation was delayed by a year. It uses a client–server architecture and uses the vehicle identification number, rather than the registration plate, as the primary key to track vehicles, eliminating the possibility of having multiple registrations for a single vehicle.
The Vehicle Identity Check (VIC) was introduced to help reduce vehicle crime. It is intended to deter criminals from disguising stolen cars with the identity of written off or scrapped vehicles.
When an insurance company writes off a car, the registration document (V5 logbook) is surrendered to them and destroyed. The insurance company will then notify the DVLA that the vehicle has been written off. This notification will set a "VIC marker" on the vehicle record on the DVLA database. DVLA database records are used by commercial vehicle check companies to offer a comprehensive individual car check to prospective purchasers. However, the accuracy of the data held remains a continuing problem.[citation needed] Anyone can request information from the database if they purport to have just cause to need it, for a fee of ВЈ2. The database of drivers, developed in the late 1.
UK. It is used to produce driving licences and to assist bodies such as the Driving Standards Agency, police and courts in the enforcement of legislation concerning driving entitlements and road safety. The DVLA revealed in December 2. A further 3. 8 bodies were banned permanently during the period.[7]Financial information[edit]Between 2.
DVLA will spend ВЈ5. IBM.[8]Employment[edit]Staff of the DVLA are predominantly female whereas other parts of the Department for Transport are predominantly male. Starting salaries are just over ВЈ1. In November 2. 00.
Public Accounts Committee report criticised the "amazingly high" levels of sick leave among staff at the DVLA, where employees took an average of three weeks per year of sick leave. The report said that overall sickness leave at the Df. T and its seven agencies averaged 1. £2. 4 million. While sick leave rates at the department itself and four of its agencies were below average—at the DVLA and DSA, which together employ more than 5. Df. T staff—they were "significantly higher". Committee chairman Edward Leigh said it was surprising the agencies could "function adequately".[1.
In 2. 00. 8 DVLA staff went on a one- day strike over pay inequality arguing that they should receive similar salaries to other employees of the Department for Transport.[9] The most recent level of sickness absence for 2. Advertising[edit]The DVLA uses advertising to warn drivers that if they do not pay their road tax, their cars may be crushed.[1.
Controversies[edit]Missing documents[edit]In 2. A BBC investigation in 2. ВЈ1. 3 million had been stolen using the documents in the 1. Around ten cars are found each week to have forged log books and police said it would be decades before they were all recovered.[1. DVLA letter bombs[edit]On 7 February 2. DVLA in Swansea and injured four people. It is suspected that this is part of a group of letter bombs sent to other organisations that deal with the administration of motoring charges and offences, such as Capita in central London, which was targeted a few days earlier.
Miles Cooper, aged 2. February 2. 00. 7, and charged on 2. February. The DVLA have since installed X- Ray machines in all post opening areas to reduce the effectiveness of any further attacks. Wrong confidential records on surveys[edit]In December 2. DVLA sent out confidential details, but to the wrong owners.
The error occurred during the sending out of routine surveys, and was not discovered until members of the public contacted the DVLA to notify them of the error.[1. Lost entitlements[edit]In 2. BBC's Watchdog reported that entitlements, specifically the entitlement to drive a motorcycle, were being lost from reissued driving licences.[1. In 2. 00. 5 the same programme highlighted drivers who had lost entitlements to drive heavy goods vehicles in a similar way. Sale of details[edit]In 2. DVLA had sold drivers' details from the database to certain private parking enforcement companies run by individuals with criminal records.
The DVLA sells details to companies for ВЈ2. In popular culture[edit]The DVLA in Swansea is regularly referred to in the British political sitcom. Yes, Minister. Bernard Woolley is regularly threatened with reassignment there.
In the episode "Big Brother", Jim Hacker is scheduled to give an address there. References[edit]External links[edit].