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Driving Tests: Fife

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress her Department has made on increasing driving examiner recruitment in Fife.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
15 Jul 2025
Answer
18 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress her Department has made on increasing driving examiner recruitment in Fife.

  2. 15 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Jul 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. The driving test centres that serve candidates in Fife are Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy....

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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