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WhatsApp +447529656926 How much does a driver’s license cost in Denmark?
I am over 70, so I have to renew my driving licence every three years. My current licence expires in January 2027. I have just received by post a copy of the D46 licence-renewal application form.

That paper form is for completion and return by post; but it encourages people to apply online instead via the http://www.gov.uk website. So i thought I would use that route (I had previously renewed my driving licence online three years ago, and i pay my car’s road tax online).

The online process was more convoluted than I remember. Essentially the website requires that in order to renew a driving licence, the applicant is obliged first to create and register a new GOV.UK One Login account, and then login to it. So i thought I would do so. Not a reassuring experience…..!

The initial stages are predictable: enter the usual personal details (birthdate etc) and documentary proof of photo ID (passport or driving licence). But then there was a choice – either download and switch to the GOV.UK One smartphone app, or ‘prove your identity another way’. I don’t have a sufficiently modern iPhone or Android mobile with camera and QR code facility, and wasn’t keen to download the app on to my phone.

So I opted for another way. I filled in several more personal-information boxes…… and then the next step was for the website process to verify my identity by checking certain details of my financial history and records. A popup said this drew on the records held by Experian. The next webpage then announced – “Sorry, we cannot verify your details and cannot complete your GOV.UK One Login account-creation… please try another way”.

Thus after half-an hour, i had got precisely nowhere. Although I have bank accounts, I have no mortgage or loans, no debts and a completely clean credit history – so maybe Experian has very little about me on its records (which is fine by me).

But this left me looking at how else I could proceed. The gov.uk website suggested that the only alternative option was to take licence, application from, proof of ID and photo to a Post Office. Apparently they would – for a fee? – verify my identity and presumably process or forward the licence renewal application. Perhaps (this wasn’t clear) they would complete and activate my GOV.UK One account as well. The only problem is that I live in a rural area and in the wake of recent local Post Office closures, the nearest PO capable of doing the identity verification is very many miles away….

I decided to leave the licence renewal pending for the moment. But just out of interest I searched online for more details of this new GOV.UK One Login online digital ID account and app (which supposedly gives access to other, but not all, government services). Not a reassuring picture. It’s a new government initiative, still being “rolled out”. And there are articles online from IT experts warning that some of the design and development of the system was outsourced to Romania (eh?!) and it is riddled with “serious security and data protection problems”. See for example this piece in Computer Weekly. No huge surprise, given the government’s poor track record and history of security breaches and data leaks with other similar systems.

So for now I don’t yet have a GOV.UK One Login account. But there is a postscript.

Slightly irritated by this runaround I looked on the MSE website and I clicked a link about driving licence renewal. This took me to another website – the DVLA portal, here. This appears to be a genuine and secure official website (with htttps:// address). So – I thought – I’ll see what happens if I begin a licence-renewal application on this site.

Usual sequence of questions and boxes to fill in; and, long story short, I was able to complete the entire process right through to the final stage which was an on-screen confirmation, with DVLA reference number, that my renewal application had been accepted; and then a separate email to me confirming that it was being processed and that my new licence would be sent to me within 2 weeks and asking me then to cut up and send in my old licence.

Thus it looks as if I have demonstrated (a) that the GOV.UK One Login setup is both complicated and somewhat iffy; (b) that it appears still to be possible, despite what is said on the http://www.gov.uk website, to access and use the DVLA’s own online portal to renew a licence; and (c) that this can all be done without being obliged to create a GOV.UK One Login account, or download the app, or visit a Post Office.

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