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.

answeredDepartment for Transport

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
16 Dec 2024
Answer
16 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Transport

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 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.

  2. 16 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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 (...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Railways: East of England

19 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the reliability of train services in the East of England.