Question follow-through · 102325
Driving Tests: Chichester
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an (a) assessment of the effectiveness of her policies to reduce waiting times for driving tests and (b) estimate of the costs to (i) people in Chichester constituency and (ii) the economy
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 2 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jan 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an (a) assessment of the effectiveness of her policies to reduce waiting times for driving tests and (b) estimate of the costs to (i) people in Chichester constituency and (ii) the economy
6 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jan 2026
Answer published
The average waiting time in weeks, in December 2025, for a car practical driving test at Chichester driving test centre was 24 weeks.The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) fully acknowledges car practical driving test waiting times remain high and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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