Question follow-through · 984

Driving Instruction: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent formal consultation his Department has undertaken with Approved Driving Instructors and their representative bodies regarding the standards check system.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
13 May 2026
Target answer date
18 May 2026
Answer
18 May 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 13 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent formal consultation his Department has undertaken with Approved Driving Instructors and their representative bodies regarding the standards check system.

  2. 18 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 May 2026

    Answer published

    When the current standards checks system was implemented in 2014, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) conducted a full consultation. The system has not changed and, therefore, there has been no formal consultation since those changes. The curre...

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