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Statistical data set Vehicle Operator Licence data for Great Britain

Statistical data set about applications for vehicle operator licence, including summary data, rejection rate, rejection reasons, average approval times and more.


From: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Published 5th May 2025

Last updated 5th May 2025

About this data set

This data set comes from data held by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).

It isn’t classed as an ‘official statistic’. This means it’s not subject to scrutiny and assessment by the UK Statistics Authority.

Annual Service Statistics of VOL (Vehicle Operator Licence)



The data set includes our application satisfaction and digital completion of VOL service.


Summary of annual service statistics of VOL



This data is produced from a variety of sources gathered together to give a view of the current view for our KPI’s assigned by CDDO.



This data table is updated every 3 months.

Application Rejection rate



This data is produced from a variety of sources gathered together to give a view of the current view for our KPI’s assigned by CDDO.



This data table is updated every 3 months.

Rejection rate of VOL

Ref: DVSA/VOL/04

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