Digital driving licences are coming this year as part of new government app

Physical licences will still be issued and will remain valid after the digital ones come in - (Anthony Devlin/PA Archive)

The UK is to introduce digital driving licences this year as part of major plans to offer more government services digitally.

The Government said it wants to launch the digital licences, which will exist alongside hard copy ones, by summer 2025 as a pilot project as part of ambitions to “make people’s lives easier and transform public services”.