Thursday 24 November 2022 06:41 PM DVLA chief says DOCTORS to blame for 100,000 drivers having to wait a year for ... trends now
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Doctors are partly to blame for almost 100,000 people waiting for a year for a new driving licence, the head of the DVLA has claimed.
Julie Lennard suggested GPs and consultants are taking too long to respond to requests for information, delaying the processing of medical driving licence applications.
The DVLA achieved a target to process 90 per cent of medical licensing decisions within 90 working days in the two years before the coronavirus pandemic.
But between April 2020 and September 2022 more than a third - 36per cent - of the medical licensing decisions took longer than 90 days.
And 6 per cent - equivalent to around 91,000 - took more than 250 working days, according to official figures.
Ms Lennard was pressed by Tory MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown during an appearance before the Commons Public Accounts Committee yesterday.
He asked whether consultants or GPs were not
