Question follow-through · 34153
Motorcycles: Driving Instruction
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will take steps to improve the training required for motorcycle drivers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 6 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will take steps to improve the training required for motorcycle drivers.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government is considering plans to review existing requirements for motorcycle training, testing and licensing, and wants to take account of the long-standing plans in the Department for Transport and the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, alongside...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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