Question follow-through · 45085
Driving: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) practical and (b) theory driving (i) lessons and (ii) tests are accessible for people who are d/Deaf.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) practical and (b) theory driving (i) lessons and (ii) tests are accessible for people who are d/Deaf.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) works with publishing partners, the Stationary Office, to publish The Highway Code and other materials to help people when learning to drive. The DVSA wants the content it produces to be as accessible as poss...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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