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Motorcycles: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to consult on introducing licence upgrade courses for powered light vehicles.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
9 Jan 2025
Answer
13 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to consult on introducing licence upgrade courses for powered light vehicles.

  2. 9 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is considering plans to review existing requirements for motorcycle training, testing and licensing, taking account of long-standing Department for Transport and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency plans and recent sector proposals.Those wi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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