Question follow-through · 60167
Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to reduce the backlog of driving tests.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to reduce the backlog of driving tests.
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
On the 23 April, the Secretary of State for Transport appeared before the Transport Select Committee and announced that the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) will take further actions to reduce waiting times for all customers across Great Britain...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Driving Licences: Older People
9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason her Department introduced mandatory renewal of driving licenses for drivers over 70 and every subsequent three years.
Railway Stations: Ticket Offices
20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve accessibility of ticket offices at rail stations for people suffering sight loss.
Bus Stations: Disability Aids
30 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure bus stations have audio-visual stop information (a) nationally and (b) in Hertfordshire.
Motor Insurance: Young People
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 10 September 2026 to Question 27029 on Motor Insurance: Young People, whether she has considered the potential merits of capping insurance costs for young drivers and young drivers wit