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Driving Tests: Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to improve driving test availability in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
13 Oct 2025
Answer
14 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to improve driving test availability in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.

  2. 13 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is upholding road safety standards while it takes decisive action to reduce car practical driving test waiting times.On the 23 April, the Secretary of State for Transport announced that DVSA w...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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