Consultation on plans to cut driving licence costs.

The Government has announced plans to cut driving licence costs by up to a third.

It wants to reduce the price of new applications to drop from £50 to £34 while ten-year renewals will be cut from £20 to £14. However, paper application fees will only go down by 15% as the DVLA wants as many applicants as possible to sign up online.

All tachograph cards will also fall from £38 to £32.

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Lowering costs across the industry

The Government reckons that cutting these fees will save drivers £18 million a year. The industry will also save around £2 million as a result of smaller running costs.

The public consultation closes on closes on August 25th and the Government hopes to introduce new rates by the end of October.

You can have your say on the consultation at Gov.uk.

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