{"id":88715,"date":"2018-02-06T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0affb22e386dae86bc0b6f4a62fea921"},"modified":"2018-02-06T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:34:00","slug":"press-release-julie-lennard-appointed-interim-chief-executive-of-dvla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=88715","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Julie Lennard appointed interim Chief Executive of DVLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Added translation<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Julie has been <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/abbr>\u2019s Director of Strategy, Policy and Communications since August 2014. Prior to this, Julie worked at The National Archives where she was responsible for developing strategic policy relationships with senior stakeholders and overseeing Parliamentary and legislative issues.<\/p>\n<p>Julie has also worked for Which? the largest consumer organisation in Europe, in a range of roles including as a journalist and representing the campaigning organisation to government departments, agencies and other stakeholders at a national and international level.<\/p>\n<p>Department for Transport Permanent Secretary Bernadette Kelly, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Julie is an experienced and highly regarded leader in government and private sector with a proven track record in delivering results. I am sure Julie\u2019s experience and knowledge of <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/abbr> and its customers will be invaluable as <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/abbr> continues its drive towards becoming a hub for digital motoring.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/abbr>\u2019s interim Chief Executive Julie Lennard said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m really looking forward to leading the team here in Swansea at a time when the agency is taking great steps in innovative digital services for motorists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h4>\n<p>Julie will take up her post as interim Chief Executive of the <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/abbr> on the 19 March.<\/p>\n<p>The external competition for the permanent role of Chief Executive of <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/abbr> will be launched shortly.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/abbr> is an executive agency of the Department for Transport. It is responsible for maintaining over 48 million driver records and almost 40 million vehicle records. It collects around \u00a36 billion a year in Vehicle Excise Duty. The agency employs over 5,000 people and is based in Swansea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_1075\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\"><abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency\">DVLA<\/abbr> Press Office<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLongview Road<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMorriston<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSwansea <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">SA6 7JL <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:press.office@dvla.gsi.gov.uk\">press.office@dvla.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm &#8211; only for use by journalists and the media:<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 123 0791\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of office hours &#8211; only for use by journalists and the media:<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 123 2407\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Lennard has been appointed as the interim Chief Executive of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}