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Driving Tests: Glasgow North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the waiting list for practical driving tests in Glasgow North East constituency.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Department for Transport
Tabled
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Jan 2025
Answer
8 Jan 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the waiting list for practical driving tests in Glasgow North East constituency.

  2. 6 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Jan 2025

    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. On the 18 December, DVSA set out further plans to reduce driving test waiting times. ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Driving Tests: Glasgow

13 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will publish practical driving test results broken down via (a) age and (b) gender for each of the test centres in greater Glasgow.