Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

UK government department
Organization government_agency Q5308010
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Summary

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is a government agency[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of government agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (617 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Swansea[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Item operated: Vehicle register[5]
  • Headquarters location: Swansea[6]
  • Part of: Department for Transport[7]
  • Inception: 1965[8]
  • Official website: https://gov.uk/dvla[9]
  • Official name: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency[10], Asiantaeth Trwyddedu Gyrwyr a Cherbydau[11]
  • URL: https://driver-and-vehicles-account.service.gov.uk/home?locale=en[12]
  • Exact match: https://findthatcharity.uk/orgid/XI-ROR-003vwv291[13]
  • Social media followers: 69,743[14], 89,156[15], 95,530[16]

Why It Matters

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . gov.uk. Retrieved . gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . gov.uk. Retrieved . gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . FindThatCharity.uk. Retrieved . findthatcharity.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Back ache · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Url → https://driver-and-vehicles-account.service.gov.uk/home?loca
    Wikipedia languages → ['cy', 'en', 'he', 'ja', 'simple']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Url: https://driver-and-vehicles-account.service.gov.uk/home?locale=en"
  2. 9w ago · Strugglehouse · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://gov.uk/dvla
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Official website: https://gov.uk/dvla"
  3. 14w ago · BrickTeam- · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in → —
    Country → —
    Headquarters location → Swansea
    Item operated → Vehicle register
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Part of: Department for Transport"
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