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Tractors and Trailers: Driving Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to introduce a separate mandatory driving test for tractor and trailer combinations over a certain weight threshold.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
18 Jul 2025
Target answer date
22 Jul 2025
Answer
23 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to introduce a separate mandatory driving test for tractor and trailer combinations over a certain weight threshold.

  2. 22 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    There are no current plans to introduce a separate test for agricultural tractor and trailer combinations over a certain weight threshold.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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