Question follow-through · 19091
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department plans to take to reduce the backlog in driving tests.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department plans to take to reduce the backlog in driving tests.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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16 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 for customers at all driving test centres (...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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