Question follow-through · 7082
Driverless Vehicles: Job Creation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of high-skilled jobs that will be created in Great Britain by 2035 as a result of the self-driving vehicles pilot scheme.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of high-skilled jobs that will be created in Great Britain by 2035 as a result of the self-driving vehicles pilot scheme.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2026
Answer published
On May 22 of this year, the Automated Passenger Services permitting scheme for small-scale pilot deployments opened to applications. This can help operators to assess the viability of commercial self-driving services in Great Britain. The piloting scheme...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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