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Driving Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of practical driving tests.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
17 Apr 2025
Target answer date
24 Apr 2025
Answer
24 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of practical driving tests.

  2. 24 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is upholding road safety standards while it works hard to reduce car practical driving test waiting times. On the 18 December 2024, DVSA set out a 7-point plan to reduce driving test waiting t...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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