Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 71238

Buses and Large Goods Vehicles: Licensing

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to respond to the consultation entitled Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehicles, which closed on 5 June 2024.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The previous government consulted on proposals to amend licensing restrictions which would enable 18- to 20-year-olds to drive a bus and coach over 50km when driving a regular service and to enable some of the tests required to be passed in order to gain ...
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