Question follow-through · 98606
Motor Vehicles: Testing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to prioritise individual vehicle approval testing for vehicles commissioned for essential purposes, such as a) emergency healthcare or b) home-to-school education.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 15 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to prioritise individual vehicle approval testing for vehicles commissioned for essential purposes, such as a) emergency healthcare or b) home-to-school education.
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has no specific plans to prioritise vehicles commissioned for essential purposes, but should there be a specific need, DVSA would consider this in a similar way to actions taken during the pandemic. DVSA woul...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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