Question follow-through · 91658
Driving Instruction: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new driving instructors have been hired since January 2015.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new driving instructors have been hired since January 2015.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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20 Nov 2025
Answer published
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25 Nov 2025
Answer corrected
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) does not employ driving instructors. By law, approved driving instructors (ADI) cannot work as examiners at the same time as being a registered instructor, even temporarily. Whilst DVSA does not have the powe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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