Never heard of this before, certainly never been asked.
Which company doesn't trust you?

 

I've not seen it on car insurance, but have on hire cars and courtesy cars...

 

I've had to do that a couple of times for company car insurance before now, not private insurance though.

More ar5e covering red tapery no-doubt.

 

Perfectly normal now we are post-paper. I implemented it for our online expenses system. The check code allows whoever you share it with to view your driving licence via the gov portal. So when you say to them, ‘no points guv, I’m a good lad’ they can check it to confirm. So car insurance providers and hire car companies will ask for a check code to make sure you aren’t disqualified or have points on offences that would prevent you hiring - things like a CD10 mean a hire car company would probably decline you, so watch that undertaking!

 

First time I have seen it. It’s with Sterling Insurance who underwrite via Aegeas (or however you spell it). Service and price have all been good - just new to me to see this asked for. It’s just a bit of a faff to do if, like MrsD, the idea of knowing or finding your NI number and your driving license together at the same time is like doing a GCSE in Japanese algebra….

 

I was just going to ask "Is it for Sterling Insurance?" I renewed with them this year and was asked for check codes.
Had to do it 3 times before they were satisfied.
I shan't be using Sterling again that's for sure.
Quoted me £120 pounds (which was less than my renewal from my existing insurer) and a couple of weeks later my wife noticed they had taken another £50. When I rang them to check they said there was a "Notification" on my file so the premium had gone up. Never bothered to inform me or ask if I still wanted their cover. When I asked if I could cancel they said "yes, for a fee"

 

It's been around for a while. I have to provide one annually at work to keep my authority to drive official cars. I don't think I've ever provided it for car insurance.

 

Hi.
Yes this is something we have been doing for a number of years now with some of our insurance schemes.
Regards,
Dan.

 

Driving licence check code remains valid for 21 days only. Previously 72 hours.

 

I've done it as advised before going abroad for hire company to check. None of them ever asked for it.......

 

Post paper counterpart now...

It has been around for awhile yes, my employer enjoys seeing mine on regular occasions 😕

 

Paper Counterpart? Never had one of them! My old style paper licence was swapped for a plastic one when we moved house... Bonus of the old paper one was that they stopped putting points on them and relied on the electronic records. Even with the paper one hire companies asked for the check code so there was no point in not declaring the 3 speeding points on it (plus it might have invalidated any cover in the event of needing to claim). Sadly i had to return the "clean" paper licence to DVLA..... I think it's a good system and have been impressed with the level of service from DVLA in recent years. I wonder how they're going to react when I tell them that the chassis number on the Lancia Beta I'm restoring is wrong? It's missing a couple of zeroes!
Guy

 

I think I still have my Paper Counterpart filed away somewhere. Not sure when that stopped being a thing.

 

They have not been issued for years....

 

Indeed. I still have my original main paper licence as well. You were supposed to send these back to Swansea when getting the plastic one, but I never got round to it.