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- Learn to drive a car: step by step
- Apply for your first provisional driving licence
- View or share your driving licence information
- Tell DVLA you've changed address: step by step
- Replace a lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed driving licence
- Renew your driving licence
- Renew your driving licence if you're 70 or over
Legal obligations
Apply for a licence
- Apply for your first provisional driving licence
- Identity documents needed for a driving licence application
- Track your driving licence application
- Apply for your full driving licence
View a licence
Lost or stolen driving licence
Update your licence
- Tell DVLA you've changed address: step by step
- Change the address on your driving licence
- Change the name or gender on your driving licence
- Change the photo on your driving licence
Renew, reapply or exchange your licence
- Renew your driving licence
- Renew your driving licence if you're 70 or over
- Renew your short-term medical driving licence
- Exchange your paper driving licence for a photocard licence
- Reapply for a driving licence following a medical condition
- Reapply for your driving licence if you've been disqualified
- Exchange a foreign driving licence
- Driving in Great Britain on a non-GB licence
- Driving licence fees
- Download and order DVLA forms
Upgrade your licence
- Adding categories to your driving licence
- Upgrade an automatic car driving licence to a manual one
- Driving licence fees
- Driving a motorhome
- Driving a minibus
Towing a trailer
- Towing with a car
- Tow a trailer or caravan with a car: safety checks
- Towing: licence and age requirements
Give up your licence
Tell DVLA a driver has died
Codes, categories and points
- Vehicles you can drive
- Driving licence categories
- Driving a van
- Driving a minibus
- Driving a motorhome
- Driving licence codes
- Penalty points (endorsements)
- Compare old and new driving licence categories
- Vehicle weights explained
Contact DVLA
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Driving licences
Apply for, renew or update your licence, view or share your driving licence, add new categories
Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance
Pay or cancel vehicle tax, register your vehicle off road, book or check an MOT, insurance
Driving tests and learning to drive or ride
Find driving lessons, book and manage theory and driving tests, tests for different vehicles
Number plates, vehicle registration and log books
Update details in your (V5C) log book, get a personalised number plate or trade licence plate
Buy, sell or scrap a vehicle
Buy or sell a vehicle, check a used vehicle, written off vehicles, scrapping a vehicle
Driving with medical conditions, Blue Badges and public transport for disabled people
Check and report your medical condition, get a Blue Badge, mobility scooters and bus passes
The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules
Rules for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, road and boat safety
Vehicle and driver data and information
Get vehicle information, check MOT history, check driving licence history
Penalty points, fines and driving bans
Penalties and fines, speeding, drink-driving, parking fines, appeals
Driving in the UK and abroad
Drive abroad, drive in the UK with a foreign licence, bring a vehicle to the UK
HGV, bus and coach drivers
Become a HGV or bus driver, find training, drivers' hours rules, specialist tests
Transport and driving businesses
Vehicle operator licences, goods vehicle and bus and public service vehicle operators, employing drivers
Teaching people to drive
Become an instructor, book and manage tests, manage your ADI registration
Driving and enforcing the law
Legal obligations of drivers and riders, report a crime
Parking, public transport and the environment
Public transport and bus passes, parking, environment and emissions
Manufacture or adapt a vehicle
Get a vehicle approved, register a vehicle, manufacturing regulations
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- Business and self-employed
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- Citizenship and living in the UK
- Crime, justice and the law
- Disabled people
- Driving and transport
- Education and learning
- Employing people
- Environment and countryside
- Housing and local services
- Money and tax
- Passports, travel and living abroad
- Visas and immigration
- Working, jobs and pensions