Question follow-through · 19118
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will provide extra funding to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency to help tackle backlogs in driving tests.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will provide extra funding to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency to help tackle backlogs in driving tests.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is upholding road safety standards while it works hard to reduce car practical driving test waiting times.Measures in place to reduce waiting times include the recruitment of new driving exami...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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