Question follow-through · 127837
Driving Tests: Labour Turnover
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving examiners a) ceased to and b) started to practice in i) March and ii) April 2026.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 16 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 24 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving examiners a) ceased to and b) started to practice in i) March and ii) April 2026.
22 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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24 Apr 2026
Answer published
On 31 March 2026, the Driver and Vehicle Service Agency (DVSA) had 1,604 full-time equivalent driving examiners (DE), the highest number since 2018 and 188 more DEs than on 30 April 2025. The table below shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) driv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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