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Celebrating women in tech: Rama and Elizabeth’s stories 

Celebrating women in tech: Rama and Elizabeth’s stories 

We recently sat down with 2 of our cyber security graduates, Rama and Elizabeth, to hear about their career journeys and experience in the graduate programme at DVLA.

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Usability testing at DVLA

Posted by: Dan Williamson, Posted on: 23 March 2015 - Categories: Customer research and insight

Back in November I presented to our Executive Team and was given approval to invest in a User Experience (UX) testing Lab. We’ve been doing usability testing here since 2008 and as an organisation we are committed to delivering excellent …

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Second abolition of the counterpart webchat

Posted by: Jonathan Arnold, Posted on: 19 March 2015 - Categories: Abolition of the counterpart

Following the success of our first abolition of the counterpart webchat last month, we'll be hosting our second on Thursday 26 March at 10:30am. This second webchat will give our stakeholders, commercial customers and suppliers a further opportunity to ask …

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DVLA’s Red Tape Challenge

Posted by: DVLA digital comms team, Posted on: 17 March 2015 - Categories: Features

Rohan Gye’s recent blog 400 days of transformation has reminded us that many of the changes we’re delivering stem from the Red Tape Challenge introduced by government in April 2011. This gave business and the general public the opportunity to challenge the …

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Abolition of the counterpart – our free communications toolkit

Posted by: DVLA digital comms team, Posted on: 17 March 2015 - Categories: Abolition of the counterpart

As you know on 8 June 2015 the paper counterpart (D740) to the photocard driving licence will no longer be a valid document and will not be produced and issued by DVLA. This change will affect individuals and businesses that …

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Changes to the drug driving law

Posted by: DVLA digital comms team, Posted on: 16 March 2015 - Categories: Features

On 2 March 2015 the drug driving law changed to make it easier for the police to catch and convict drug drivers. It’s now an offence to drive with certain drugs above a specified level in your blood - just …

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DVLA helps children to become programmers of the future

Posted by: Mark Jones, Posted on: 12 March 2015 - Categories: Features

In my role as head of DVLA Systems Development it’s not only my job to ensure my staff have the right skills to do their job but also to support an eco system of tech talent in the local area …

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DVLA wins a National Contract Management Award

Posted by: Paul Cattroll, Posted on: 4 March 2015 - Categories: Features
DVLA team on stage accepting the procurement team of the year 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 …

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Abolition of counterpart webchat: questions we didn’t have time to answer

Posted by: Jonathan Arnold, Posted on: 25 February 2015 - Categories: Abolition of the counterpart

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 …

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Business Services - Exhibiting at Procurex Wales Live

Posted by: Jonathan Humble, Posted on: 20 February 2015 - Categories: DVLA Business Services

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. …

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Abolition of the counterpart webchat

Posted by: Jonathan Arnold, Posted on: 13 February 2015 - Categories: Abolition of the counterpart

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 …

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