Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2026 to Question 122319, on Driving Tests: Vacancies, if she will provide, for each recruitment campaign undertaken by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in each of the last three financial years, details of (a) the campaign name, intended audience and description, (b) the channels used, (c) the geographic areas targeted and (d) the job roles advertised.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The table below details: the campaign name, channels used and the geographic areas targeted for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) 10 driving examiner recruitment campaigns in the 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 financial years. In terms of the intended audience, all campaigns aim to target the widest group that could be interested. DVSA advertises all driving examiner vacancies on Civil Service Jobs on GOV.UK. DVSA also uses posters in driving test centres and external online job sites to reach a wider pool of applicants.
Date | Campaign name | Channels used | Geographical area targeted |
May-23 | Driving Examiner | Civil Service Jobs, Social Media, various job boards | National (except London and South East England) |
Sep-23 | Driving Examiner | Civil Service Jobs, Social Media, various job boards | National |
Feb-24 | Driving Examiner | Civil Service Jobs, Social Media, various job boards | National |
Jun-24 | Driving Examiner | Civil Service Jobs, Social Media, various job boards | National |
Sep-24 | Driving Examiner | Civil Service Jobs, Social Media, various job boards. radio/Spotify adverts | National |
Mar-25 | Driving Examiner | Civil Service Jobs, Social Media, various job boards. radio adverts | National |
Jul-25 | Driving Examiner | Civil Service Jobs, Social Media, various job boards | National |
Sep-25 | Driving Examiner | Civil Service Jobs, Social Media, various job boards | National |
Dec-25 | Driving Examiner | Civil Service Jobs, Social Media, various job boards | National |
Feb-26 | Driving Examiner | Civil Service Jobs, Social Media, various job boards | Southern England, East Midlands, East Anglia & London |
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2026 to Question 104661 on M6: Repairs and Maintenance, if she will publish the assessments undertaken by National Highways in (a) 2019 and (b) 2025 on the feasibility of temporary slip roads at junction 38 of the M6.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
National Highways shared its 2019 option assessment work for the M6 Lune Gorge scheme with local stakeholders, which considered mitigation measures, including the consideration of temporary slip roads at junction 38.
Following further stakeholder engagement, National Highways revisited this option and commissioned a feasibility exercise in August 2025. They presented their findings from the feasibility exercise in September 2025. Subsequently, BWB Consulting have put forward alternative proposals on behalf of local stakeholders. We are keen to work with local people and National Highways have committed to review these further proposals. National Highways will feed back on this.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the flights listed to Canada in WPQ 120039, a) what the purpose was of each such visit; b) which Ministers or senior officials approved each visit; c) how many officials travelled on each occasion and at what grade; d) what the total cost was of each visit; and e) what assessment was made of whether those engagements could be conducted remotely or combined with other travel.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The flights to Canada listed in WPQ 120039 cover numerous trips and to provide detail on each individual trip would be at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2026 to Question 120894, how many meetings of the Rail Engagement Group have taken place since its establishment.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Secretary of State established the Rail Engagement Group in October 2025, and since then it has held three meetings.