Written questions

Driving Licences: Older People

Commons · Question 21944 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 9 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Navendu Mishra

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many complaints her Department has received regarding the accessibility and usability of the DVLA’s online system for renewing driving licenses for people age 70 and over since its introduction; and what st

Answer

Answered by Justin Madders, 9 Sep 2026

The information requested is not readily available and can only be extracted at disproportionate cost. To extract this information would require a manual interrogation of all the complaints made about a driving licence to determine whether it related to a...