Question follow-through · 94895
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will publish a regional plan for expanding driving test capacity in areas with the longest waiting times.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will publish a regional plan for expanding driving test capacity in areas with the longest waiting times.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) fully acknowledges car practical driving test waiting times remain high and understands the impact this continues to have on learner drivers, particularly those living in rural and semi-rural communities.In t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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