Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 72404

Driving Tests

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025

Question

Cameron Thomas

IndependentTewkesbury

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 Greenwood
The 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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