Chris calls out recent increase in DVLA delays

2 Mar 2026
chris on bbc london

Marbelia was mistakenly registered as dead by the DVLA. She only found out when she tried to renew her licence. She was then sent a provisional one despite driving for decades. I’m contacted regularly about numerous issues from the DVLA. I’ve seen a sharp rise in people contacting me about many issues with the DVLA, including severe delays for licence renewals. I have now raised this directly with the government.

I’m glad Marbelia’s case is finally resolved but it’s deeply frustrating that it only got sorted when I got the BBC involved.

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