Question follow-through · 78649
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of learner drivers not attending their practical driving test.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of learner drivers not attending their practical driving test.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
The number of learner drivers who fail to attend their driving test represents just 3% of all tests taken accounting for around 60,000 tests. With unprecedented demand for tests, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is doing all it can to furthe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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