Lord Young of Cookham (Con)

I am grateful for that Answer, but I think the answer to my Question is no—although it was very skilfully camouflaged. This is a racket. Middlemen are hoovering up slots on the DVSA website and then charging learner drivers a premium to access them. I googled this morning “Book your driving test earlier”. I got eight hits on the first page, with lots of inducements: “You can receive a test a month earlier than you would usually find on the DVSA website” and “Get your driving licence faster with early test bookings”. Another one said, “Book a driving test quicker with our booking system”. Trustpilot reveals that some of those are scams, with people paying £90 and not getting a test. Last month, the previous Secretary of State said: “we will review and improve the rules around booking tests, including”, as the Minister has just said, measures to ban the resale of driving test appointments”.—[Official Report, Commons, 18/12/24; col. 52WS.] Why do the Government not just get on with it and ban this racket?