Question follow-through · 93760
Driving Tests: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to deploy defence driving examiners in Scotland to help reduce the backlog of learners waiting for a driving test.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 24 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 28 Nov 2025 · 4 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
24 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to deploy defence driving examiners in Scotland to help reduce the backlog of learners waiting for a driving test.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2025
Answer published
DVSA has agreed with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) that 36 defence driving examiners (DDE) will carry out driving tests. The DDEs will be based at the driving test centre (DTC) with the highest demand near either their MOD base location or where they live...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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