Question follow-through · 121843
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help ensure changes to driving test booking rules mean booking driving tests will be accessible to everyone.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help ensure changes to driving test booking rules mean booking driving tests will be accessible to everyone.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2026
Answer published
The changes to driving test booking rules follow a call for evidence and a public consultation that many in the driving instructor industry responded to. In addition to reviewing the consultation responses, an options assessment was conducted. This provid...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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