Question follow-through · 40855
Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has considered potential options to support people whose theory tests have expired while waiting for availability for practical tests.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has considered potential options to support people whose theory tests have expired while waiting for availability for practical tests.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
It is important that road safety knowledge and hazard perception skills are up to date at the critical point a person drives unsupervised for the first time. The maximum duration of two years between passing the theory test and a subsequent practical test...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
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Driving Tests
13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on what proportion of driving test bookings involved the initial driving licence number on the booking form being subsequently changed, in each month since January 2015.