Back in June & July 2012 we held a three-week Discovery with colleagues from GDS following a decision to choose the Integrated Enquiries Programme (IEP) as our first Digital Exemplar. I remember it well as my son was born the …
Over the last few months we’ve had a number of people asking questions about the View Driving Licence (VDL) service, hopefully this blog should go some way to answering these questions. The purpose of VDL is to allow driving licence …
It’s now been 5 months or 12 ‘sprints’ since View Driving Record moved into public beta (soon to be renamed View Driving Licence for its ‘live’ launch later this month) and we have been busy acting on the feedback that …
The View Driving Record (VDR) public beta has been running for over two months, with over 50,000 visits to date. When giving users access to sensitive information such as the details on your driving licence, we need to be sure …
It’s just over 2 weeks since the Beta launch of the View Driving Record service and what a hectic two weeks it’s been. We’ve dealt with the global heartbleed issue, fixed minor teething problems and presented the service at a …
Yesterday, at just after midday, we launched the public beta of View Driving Record on GOV.UK. With desktops, laptops, tablets and mobiles at the ready, the whole team gathered around the screen waiting eagerly for Dafydd Vaughan, GDS Technical Architect, …
It’s been a few months since my last blog and the time has quite literally flown by! Testing on the View Driving Record project has gone from busy to hectic over the past few months… and I wouldn’t have had …
In the past week the first live data was copied from DVLA's legacy driver database into the new Integrated Enquiry Platform (IEP). This is a crucial milestone on the journey to providing the View Driving Record service. We've overcome many …
This past Monday, after a four and half hour drive from Swansea to Liverpool, we found ourselves checking into a hotel about 50 feet from the Echo Arena where, interestingly, the Arctic Monkeys were playing a gig. As much as …
We heard a few weeks ago from Jamie Trollope as he told us about how the digital services teams here at DVLA are really putting the customer at the heart of product design. The team looked at how digital technology can …