Question follow-through · 26292
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people (a) sat their practical driving test and (b) used dual control cars in each of the last 5 years for which data is available.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people (a) sat their practical driving test and (b) used dual control cars in each of the last 5 years for which data is available.
3 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2026
Answer published
The table below shows the number of candidates who took a car practical driving test in each of the last 5 financial years, and how many of them took at least one test in a car with dual controls. YearNumber of candidates who took a testNumber of candida...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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