Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 91213

Driving Tests: Staff

Tabled: 14 November 2025
Answered: 20 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Jacob Collier

LabourBurton and Uttoxeter

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's joint press notice entitled Mirror, signal, manoeuvres: Military driving examiners mobilised to cut test backlog, published on 12 November 2025, which areas the military drivi

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has accepted the resource of Defence Driving Examiners (DDEs), to be based at the driving test centres with the highest demand near their MOD base or home location.