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Almost every day someone posts in the main forums that they moved house, changed the address on their driving licence, but didn't update the V5 / RK details, leading to all kinds of self-inflicted issues.

Well I don't know how new this is but I just updated my driving licence (over 70 so every 3 years <sigh>). There's a new (to me) "GOV.UK ONE" service that links to DVLA for online applications, and that now lets you add a vehicle to the same account as your driving licence.

So I assume if you change the address for one it will automatically update the other, or at least strongly remind you to do so.
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Quote from: Reentrant on October 15, 2025, 01:54:18 pm
So I assume if you change the address for one it will automatically update the other
That feels like the sort of assumption that could lead to the very problems you describe.

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It may well be that the DVLA has experimented with a small amount of joined up thinking.
Personally, I provisionally consider this to be a good thing, subject to the usual caveats, particularly those involving the DVLA and their predilection for issuing penalties to motorists for their own f*ck ups.

As a cautionary tale, the closest analog I can think of is the default "auto-renewal" for car insurance, that few if any insurers ever actually ask their customers if they want, but is seen as a convenience to avoid inadvertently being uninsured, ignoring that if the insurer fails to renew the policy, the motorist may well be unaware, but will shoulder the criminal liability for ensuring that he is insured.
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This sounds suspiciously like the OneLogin "service" that is the government's "nudge" to get you to register for Digital ID (BritCard).

If you are comfortable with this then "fill yer boots", but if you are a bit sceptical then consider using the old fashioned (albeit slower) ways to bow down to our lords and masters ;)
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Have you actually used this?

From what I can gather it seems it is only available to those with a central government e-mail address (e.g. ".gov.uk", ".police.uk" ".nhs.uk"):

https://www.sign-in.service.gov.uk/about#:~:text=GOV.UK%20One%20Login%20is%20currently%20available%20to%20all%20central,out%20more%20about%20your%20service.

"Who can use GOV.UK One Login

GOV.UK One Login is currently available to all central government departments and agencies."

It seems it is proposed that it will supersede the "Government Gateway" system. I have had a login to that for about eight years and it doesn't work very well.

Even if it was available to me, I don't think I would trust it to update my V5C
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You definitely don't need a central government email address to use it; I use it often at work with a non-government email address. The "Find a Tender" service on which all government procurement exercises run requires a GOV.UK One login.

"available to all central government departments and agencies" in this context probably means that all central government departments and agencies are able to switch their digital services over to run via that system.
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I used it yesterday to renew my DL. One interesting part of the registration was laying your smartphone on your passport so it can read the ID chip.

You do need a reasonably recent Android phone / iPhone to register (can't remember the exact specs).
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Quote from: NewJudge on October 16, 2025, 08:35:58 am
From what I can gather it seems it is only available to those with a central government e-mail address (e.g. ".gov.uk", ".police.uk" ".nhs.uk"):

That link is probably for government departments (or agencies?) who are being "invited" to use OneLogin to authenticate users. Thus the "Ministry of Dog Fouling" can force you to login should you wish to report and upload a photo of illegal puppy poo.

That way, at a future date, the "Ministry of Citizen Compliance" can be sure that they are issuing the correct person (curtain twitcher) with their appropriate social credits, and the "Ministry of Photograph Tracking" have the serial number of your camera, should you be caught recording things that are not approved by the then government!

Oh, and a OneLogin account is now a LEGAL REQUIREMENT for company directors in the UK (see https://www.gov.uk/guidance/verifying-your-identity-for-companies-house)! I don't remember the BBC giving that news much publicity?

I too have a Government Gateway account, which i was forced (over five years ago) to create to determine whether and when i would qualify for my state pension. As part of that, i was forced to hand over my mobile phone number, so even then they were trying to slurp as much information as they could about me (even though they already had my NI number).

This creeping centralised computerisation is not for our benefit, and has been slowly going on for years (regardless of the government who are supposedly in power) :(
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The news about the new ID certification requirements for directors and company secretaries coming in and the requirement to use gov onelogin for future transactions on the Companies House Website have been circulated umpteen times by C.House to the official email address of the company registered with them.

The requirement to supply an official company email address for all communications from Companies house has existed for maybe 2 years.  There is pretty well no excuse not to know about it for those that should know.  I'm sure the BBC will catch up when we get the usual moans and outrage from those that claim they knew "nothing about it" and their company has been struck off as a result of not complying.  Then the BBC/D.Mail/Express can run a suitable rage bait headline

Not before time actually. Multiple entries for directors using different versions of their name ( full or only first and surname) or address and the use of ficticious address has been going on for years, not to mention the typos's which result in multiple entries for the same named director: I had two seperate and distinct entries as a formation agent mistyped my postcode, when I should have had both companies listed together under my name.


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