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Driving Tests: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, further to the letter of 22 May from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State to the Hon. Member for Stockton West, how many qualified DVSA staff have returned to front line examining roles and how many exams
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 1 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, further to the letter of 22 May from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State to the Hon. Member for Stockton West, how many qualified DVSA staff have returned to front line examining roles and how many exams
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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12 Jun 2026
Answer published
In June 2025, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) reintroduced overtime incentives via the Additional Test Allowance (ATA) scheme. Since then, the agency has conducted around 9,000 to 13,000 extra tests each month through overtime, and between ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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