Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 90408

Driving Tests: Armed Forces

Tabled: 12 November 2025

Answered: 17 November 2025

Named Day

Question

Mr Richard Holden

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press notice entitled Mirror, signal, manoeuvres: Military driving examiners mobilised to cut test backlog, published on 12 November 2025, what the total full-time employee equivalent cont

Answer

Simon Lightwood

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has agreed with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) that 36 defence driving examiners (DDE) will do driving tests for one day a week for 12 months. This equates to a total full-time employee equivalent contribution...

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