The CAA PLD 'issues' all flight crew licenses. Administration will be the responsibility of the relevant organisations, one of whom will be BMAA for the NPPL with Microlight Rating (identical to the current PPL(M)). The NPPL with SEP and/or SLMG Ratings will be administered by another company which is currently being registered at Companies House. An individual NPPL applicant will have their paperwork checked by their RF/FTO, then forwarded to the NPPL administration body; that body will do the work (as currently does BMAA) required to send the applicant's cheque and certificate of recommendation to PLD. PLD will only carry out the mechanical licence production process.
The cost of the NPPL (which will be a 'lifetime' licence like the old UK PPL) will reflect the reduced admin costs resulting from this devolution of administrative effort.
NPPL applicants will be required to make the appropriate medical declaration to their GPs; the GP will then complete the NPPL fitness declaration for a substantially reduced fee compared even to the JAR Class II medical. The GP does not need to be an AME; the standards the applicant will be assessed against will be those equivalent to the DVLA standards required of professional drivers as those are considered by CAA Medical to be wholly sufficient.
To those who wish to know more, please take no 'notice' of groundless denigration and ignorance - the media release is not far off.