Celebrating 10 years of DVLA’s STEM programme
Celebrating 10 years of DVLA’s STEM programme
Our STEM volunteer programme turns 10 this year. STEM ambassadors Mark Jones and Karen Pitt look back on the programme’s success.
DVLA wins a National Contract Management Award
On 26 February it was my honour to represent DVLA at the Government Opportunities (GO) Excellence in Public Procurement Awards in Manchester. The National GO Awards recognise public sector procurement excellence, and, for the past 15 years, have been the …
Abolition of counterpart webchat: questions we didn’t have time to answer
It was great to receive so much interest in our first stakeholder webchat last week. There were over 300 questions and Dudley, Hugh and Lynette managed to answer just over half of them in the 1hr 30min available. We plan …
Business Services - Exhibiting at Procurex Wales Live
Well, since my first blog the development of DVLA Business Services is progressing at pace. We’ve identified several opportunities across government, as well as local authorities and some other areas. I aim to keep you updated with developments as they emerge. …
Abolition of the counterpart webchat
DVLA will be hosting a webchat on 18 February 2015 at 10:30am about abolition of the counterpart to the photocard driving licence. The webchat will give our stakeholders, commercial customers and suppliers the opportunity to ask DVLA questions on the …
DVLA attains CIPS Corporate Certification
It was my great pleasure to attend a recent ceremony at the Department for Transport (DfT) to receive the CIPS Corporate Certificate on behalf of DVLA. CIPS is the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply – the body that represents …
DVLA works with the police and HM Revenue and Customs to crack down on illegal foreign registered vehicles
Foreign-registered vehicles being used illegally on Britain’s roads are now being seized by some police forces that have DVLA’s devolved powers. By law DVLA can give police the authority, under devolved powers, to remove untaxed vehicles. This was as a result …
No more counterpart: date confirmed for abolition
As part of the government’s Red Tape Challenge initiative to remove unnecessary burden, it’s now been confirmed by Ministers that from 8 June 2015, DVLA will no longer issue the paper counterpart to the photocard driving licence. This means from …
A new drug driving law comes into force in March 2015
A new offence, to make it easier for the police to arrest drivers who drive after taking illegal drugs or abuse medicinal drugs, will come into force in England and Wales on 2 March 2015. To help drivers understand the …
Revealing the hidden side of transformation
We’ve said before, and no doubt we’ll say again: transformation means more than fixing websites. It goes deeper than that, right into the organisations behind the websites. There’s a logic to it: digital service design means designing the whole service, …
DVLA set up a business services team
I’m very excited to write this, my first blog since starting in my new role, as Head of DVLA’s new Business Development team. I officially start in post on the 15 December 2014 and I’m working with Damian Lawson, Mark …