Question follow-through · 90408
Driving Tests: Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press notice entitled Mirror, signal, manoeuvres: Military driving examiners mobilised to cut test backlog, published on 12 November 2025, what the total full-time employee equivalent cont
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 17 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press notice entitled Mirror, signal, manoeuvres: Military driving examiners mobilised to cut test backlog, published on 12 November 2025, what the total full-time employee equivalent cont
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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17 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has agreed with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) that 36 defence driving examiners (DDE) will do driving tests for one day a week for 12 months. This equates to a total full-time employee equivalent contribution...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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