Driving Instruction: Staff
(asked on 18th December 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent driving examiners employed by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency were (a) in post and (b) delivering practical car driving tests in (i) July 2024 and (ii) each month thereafter up to the most recent month for which data is available.
The table below shows how many full-time equivalent (FTE) driving examiners (DE) employed by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency were (a) in post and (b) delivering practical car driving tests for each month from July 2024 to November 2025.
Month | No of FTE DEs in post | No of FTE DEs delivering car practical driving tests |
July-2024 | 1,442 | 1,439 |
August-2024 | 1,447 | 1,436 |
September-2024 | 1,464 | 1,450 |
October-2024 | 1,446 | 1,439 |
November-2024 | 1,449 | 1,423 |
December-2024 | 1,456 | 1,421 |
January-2025 | 1,488 | 1,438 |
February-2025 | 1,481 | 1,448 |
March-2025 | 1,456 | 1,415 |
April-2025 | 1,448 | 1,416 |
May-2025 | 1,454 | 1,430 |
June-2025 | 1,491 | 1,424 |
July-2025 | 1,513 | 1,438 |
August-2025 | 1,547 | 1,445 |
September-2025 | 1,544 | 1,464 |
October-2025 | 1,584 | 1,485 |
November-2025 | 1,608 | 1,539 |
A DE is a paid Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency employee from the point at which they start their training and therefore considered to be in post.