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Driving Tests: Gosport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to increase the availability of practical driving tests in Gosport constituency.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
2 Dec 2024
Target answer date
4 Dec 2024
Answer
5 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to increase the availability of practical driving tests in Gosport constituency.

  2. 4 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA’s) 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 all driving test centres (DTC), incl...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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