Question follow-through · 6459
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of driving tests.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 9 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of driving tests.
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recru...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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