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<p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is doing it all it can to increase
the number of vocational tests available and has put in place a number of measures
to do this. These include offering overtime and annual leave buy back to examiners,
asking all those qualified to conduct tests, but who do not do so as part of their
current day job, to return to conducting tests, and conducting out of hours testing
on public holidays and weekends. This has increased the overall number of vocational
test slots made available to around 3,000 per week.</p><p>The DVSA will be launching
a recruitment campaign to increase the number of HGV examiners. It will also continue
its training programme to enable more examiners to conduct vocational tests.</p><p>The
DVSA publish data for the number of large goods vehicle (LGV) practical driving tests
and pass rates for each driving test centre on Gov.uk. DVSA continues to work with
the driver training industry to understand demand, respond to geographical peaks.</p><p>Additional
tests are added to each test centre as the resource becomes available and can vary
on a daily basis. The number of tests conducted are published as Official Statistics.</p>
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