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Driving Tests: Administrative Delays

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of driving test waiting times on young people’s ability to access employment and education opportunities.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 21 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 23 Jan 2025
Answer: 29 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of driving test waiting times on young people’s ability to access employment and education opportunities.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
As acknowledged in the statement made on 18 December 2024 about car practical driving test waiting times, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) understands the potential impact high waiting times have on learner drivers, including younger drivers...

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