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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.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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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

  1. 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.

  2. 3 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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