Q If the Government introduces a driving
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licence which lasts for life, what will happen to the £8-3-rn centre at Swansea, described in CM (May 28 1971), which was intended to handle the issue and renewals of driving licences? Surely, the money spent on the centre and the computers will be wasted because the work will be drastically reduced?
AThe work at the new centre at Morriston
would not be reduced as drastically as you imagine and would amount to a saving in staff of about 350 people 110 per cent).
You must remember that the centre is designed to deal also with vehicle licensing which will account for some 75 per cent of its work. Of the remaining driving licence work there will still be a large number of provisional and new driving licence issues, disqualifications and re-issues and changes in names and addresses to be dealt With.