Written question asked by Julian Knight (Independent (affiliation)) on Monday, 8 January 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 10 January 2024. It was answered by Guy Opperman (Conservative) on Monday, 15 January 2024 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Driving Licences: Applications

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many D777B application forms were received by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority in 2023; and what the average waiting time was for approving those applications.

Answer

The table below shows the total number and average waiting time of manual and digital applications processed in 2023.

	Manual applications		Digital applications
	Total number processed	Average processing time (in working days)	Total number processed	Average processing time
V5C Vehicle Registration Certificate	2,541,989	4	14,497,650 These transactions are not available separately	The average waiting time to process digital applications is not readily available but is typically one day if the transaction is successful and casework or medical enquiries are not required.
V62 Application for a Vehicle Registration Certificate	1,499,893	9	14,497,650 These transactions are not available separately
V890 Statutory Off Road Notification	62,769	1	2,381,559
V317 Application to keep/transfer a vehicle registration number	115,168	4	1,002,687
D1 – non medical Application for a driving licence	1,716,073	6	7,622,328
D2 – non medical Application for lorry, bus or minibus driving licence	284,980	5	62,982
D1 - medical Application for a driving licence	309,395	63	55,802
D2 - medical Application for lorry, bus or minibus driving licence	90,273	55	This service is not offered online
D777B Application for a driver digital tachograph card	22,488	3	159,888

For the figures above, the mode average has been used to calculate the number of average processing days.

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