Press release 13: New DVLA fees to be introduced

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) today confirmed the new vehicle registration and driving licence fees to be introduced on 1 May 2007. The fee for a first driving licence will be increased to £45 (from £38) and the fee for replacing a paper licence with a photocard will be cut to £10 (from £19). At the same time, the fee for first vehicle registration will increase to £50 (from £38). These changes follow three public consultations, which were concluded in November 2004, July 2006 and January 2007.

 

The fee changes are the first in three years and are being introduced to support the continuing modernisation of DVLA and its licensing systems, including the development and provision of new and improved services, such as Electronic Vehicle re-Licensing (EVL) and First Applications for Driving Licences on-line. The changes follow the abolition of the fee for the three-year renewal of licences for drivers over 70 and the fee for vocational drivers in 2004.

 

The full list of fee changes is:

 

First Driving Licence fee increases from £38 to £45

The fee for replacing a paper licence with a photocard reduces from £19 to £10

The fees for offender re-registration (disqualifications and serious offenders) increases from £50 to £60 and £75 to £85 respectively

The fee for removal of endorsements increases from £19 to £22 The first vehicle registration fee increases from £38 to £50

The fee for a replacement vehicle registration certificate increases from £19 to £25.

 

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Notes to editors:

DVLA is a Trading Fund and an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport.  

 

Three public consultations have been undertaken in respect of its fee structure and future fee levels. The first consultation, concluded in November 2004, explored the principles to be adopted and the second consultation, concluded in July 2006, built on the principles established in the first and provided three different options and sets of fee levels to establish workable proposals. Nearly a thousand responses were received from representative organisations and the public to the first two consultations. DVLA took further feedback through a third consultation, concluded in January 2007, on its final proposals with the intention that the new fee levels should come into force from 1 May 2007.

 

DVLA will shortly be engaging with industry and representative groups to jointly set out options on which further consultation will be undertaken to address longer-term fee structures. These discussions will begin on the late spring.

 

DVLA has published reports on the responses received to the consultations on its web-site www.dvla.gov.uk together with the Regulatory Impact Assessment.  

 

For further enquiries please contact:

 

Press Office

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

Longview Road

SWANSEA

SA6 7JL

 

Tel: 01792 782318

e-mail: press.dvla@gtnet.gov.uk