Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 72404
Driving Tests
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025
Question
Cameron Thomas
Independent — Tewkesbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential benefits of (a) increasing the number of driving test examiners and (b) introducing a greater number of out-of-hours tests.
Answer
Lilian GreenwoodThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is upholding road safety standards while it works hard to reduce car practical driving test waiting times.On the 18 December last year, DVSA published measures to bring down car practical driv...
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