Question follow-through · 7940
Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of average waiting times for driving tests on the economy.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 11 Oct 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of average waiting times for driving tests on the economy.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) knows that car practical driving test waiting times remain high and understands the impact this is having on learner drivers.DVSA does not record, or hold, information about candidates whose driving licence i...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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