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Driving Instruction

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to mandate a defined minimum learning period before learner drivers can take their test.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
11 Jun 2025
Answer
17 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to mandate a defined minimum learning period before learner drivers can take their test.

  2. 11 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    We are considering measures and assessing their potential impacts to tackle the root causes of young and novice driver collisions. We will set out more details in due course.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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