 The Public and Commercial Services union will announce the result of a mass ballot across 214 government departments including the Passport Office and DWP. The backlog mounted during a dispute about how to safely return their Swansea HQ during Covid. Swansea East MP Carolyn Harris told the Mirror: "The people involved in doing the cases are doing the best they can but the system is flawed. "The way they dealt with [Covid] when it first happened was appalling. We had senior managers telling people they had to be in work who were afraid of being in the office." Ms Harris warned it will be a 'travesty' if DVLA jobs are cut in next week's Autumn Statement. 'I worked in the post room aged 16 in my first job out of school. There aren't many people here who haven't worked there,' she said. A damning report says the DVLA is failing to deal with 'medical licen){kind=link}
Nearly 100,000 “medical licensing” cases since April 2020 have been delayed by more than a year as the DVLA in Swansea tries to clear a Covid drivers’ licence backlog
Almost 100,000 people with medical conditions have waited more than a year for a new driving licence.
A damning report says the DVLA is failing to deal with “medical licensing” decisions on time after a vast Covid backlog.
From April 2020 to September this year, 36% of medical licensing cases took longer than 90 working days – and 6% took longer than 250 working days.
That means about 91,000 “medical licensing” cases since April 2020 were delayed by more than a year, the National Audit Office said.