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1654283

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date	19/07/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for drivers in rural areas to take practical tests.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	194962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is working hard to increase driving test availability by recruiting more examiners, particularly at test centres that serve rural communities, such as Boston and Peterborough.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2021, the DVSA’s recovery measures, which include conducting out-of-hours testing, such as on public holidays and weekends, 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 asking recently retired driving examiners to return, have created over one million extra car test appointments. On average, this has created approximately 40,000 extra car test appointments each month.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the DVSA has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden grouped question UIN 194963 question first answered 04/09/2023 11:57:53 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1123973

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what policies and guidance there are to ensure that people living in rural areas have adequate access to driving centres through the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency network.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
uin	249351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has policies and guidance in place to ensure that people living in rural areas where the population is equal to, or fewer than, 100 persons per square kilometre, should not have to travel more than 30 miles to take their test. The DVSA takes this travel distance criterion into account when deciding on locations for new driving test centres.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/05/2019 15:30:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr