Transport Ministries: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Policy (DVLP Series) Files

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Transport Ministries: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Policy (DVLP Series) Files

1969-1985

This series contains registered files (DVLP Series) from the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Policy Division and predecessors. The records detail the development of policy in respect of driver and vehicle licensing.

Within each transfer the records are arranged by former reference reflecting their former administrative order.

DVLP file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of the Environment, Centralised Licensing Directorate, 1970-1972
• Department of the Environment, Drivers and Vehicles Policy Division, 1976-1977
• Department of the Environment, Licensing Administration Division, 1973-1974
• Department of Transport, Driver and Vehicles Licensing Policy Division, 1978-1979
• Department of Transport, Driver Licensing, Vehicle Taxation and Insurance Division, 1981-1987
• Department of Transport, Driving and Driver Licensing Division, 1979-1981
• Ministry of Transport, Centralised Licensing Administration Division, 1969-1970

82 file(s)

Open

From 2005 Department for Transport

Topics

Transport management

Since the file series ceased to accumulate the records have been in the custody of the Department for Transport (1983-1997); the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-2001); the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001-2002); and the Department for Transport (from 2002).

File series ran from 1978 to 1982

Series is accruing

The records have been selected as they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside of its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's Acquisition Policy).

The Centralised Licensing Directorate was established within the Ministry of Transport in 1969 to manage the centralised licensing project for vehicle registration and licensing and drivers' licensing. Responsibility for this project was assumed by a Directorate of the same name in the Department of the Environment in 1970. In 1973, the Department of the Environment's Licensing Administration Division was established with responsibility for developing vehicle registration and licensing policy; the operation of driver licensing and enforcement. This was succeeded in 1976 by the Drivers and Vehicles Policy Division. In 1978 the Driver and Vehicles Licensing Policy Division was established within the Department of Transport in 1978. Its remit was the development of policy in respect of driver and vehicle licensing. In 1979 this function was transferred to the Driving and Driver Licensing Division. In 1981 the function became the responsibility of the Driver Licensing, Vehicle Taxation and Insurance Division and it remained with that Division until DVLP files ceased to be raised in 1982.