Question follow-through · 4299
Driving Tests: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent driving examiners recruited by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency were (a) in post and (b) delivering practical car driving tests in April 2026.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent driving examiners recruited by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency were (a) in post and (b) delivering practical car driving tests in April 2026.
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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3 Jun 2026
Answer published
In April 2026 there were 1,618 full-time equivalent (FTE) driving examiners in post, and out of those, 1,604 were available to deliver practical car driving tests.The national average waiting time (when a minimum of 10% of test slots are available) for a ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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