Question follow-through · 84793
Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Licences
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department are taking to help ensure that national HGV operators hold the correct license.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department are taking to help ensure that national HGV operators hold the correct license.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
There is a robust operator licensing system administered by independent Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain who act as gatekeepers to the industry. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) supports this process by providing compliance and enforc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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