DVLA’s top tips for staying safe online
DVLA’s top tips for staying safe online
Phil Morgan, Head of Fraud Policy Investigations at DVLA, shares his top tips for staying safe online and how to report any fraudulent activity.
New online vehicle tax screens: from development to live
Last week, I was really proud to be part of the team that announced that we’re testing new versions of our 'Tax your vehicle' and 'Register your vehicle as off the road (SORN)' services. These versions have been released into public beta, …
View Driving Record: an important milestone
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 …
Vehicle management: progress of the alpha
Now that we are three sprints into the Vehicle Management alpha, we have a working prototype of our first service. The service we’ve chosen is disposal to trade. This online service will allow DVLA to be notified that vehicle keepers …
Testing a new tax disc and SORN service
Last week, we released new versions of our 'Tax your vehicle', 'Register your vehicle as off the road (SORN)' and 'Get vehicle information from DVLA' services into public beta. Over the past few months, a small team here at DVLA have been …
Sprint 14 blog
It’s been a couple of weeks now since the Sprint 14 event hosted by GDS in Central London. This event showcased all the good work that the exemplar projects have been doing across government. The day started off soggy and misty with …
Vehicle Management and Personalised Registration: Inception
We kicked off our Inception phase for Vehicle Management and Personalised Registration in December. For those of you unaware of the concept of inception, its objectives are to understand what the broad scope of the project is, to start to …
Migrating to digital platforms at DVLA
Several people have asked about our future technology platform and our plans and approach to moving services onto it. So here’s our first update on the subject. The existing DVLA estate is large and complex, with many of the systems …
Assisting customers with digital services
Although we’re in the run up to the Christmas break, our testing schedule hasn’t let up! In my last blog I talked about our intention to conduct a dedicated assisted digital test with customers. After some technical difficulties, and a …
Sprint Share and beyond!
Following on from July’s SPRINT Alpha (which celebrated the best in digital and showcased the work being done around the UK to make services digital by default) this month’s Sprint Share event promised knowledge sharing and networking by bringing people together …
Customer insight in an Agile environment: NUX2
Standing on a stage, lights dimmed except for the high-powered spotlight shining in my eyes. A room of 500 industry experts in web design, analytics and research all waiting to hear what I had to say. Throat dry but palms …