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Driving Tests: Devon

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

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
1 May 2025
Target answer date
6 May 2025
Answer
12 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 May 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 in rural Devon.

  2. 6 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 May 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. In recent months, DVSA has recruited new driving examiners into driving test centres ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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