Driving Tests: Staff

(asked on 26th March 2026) - View Source
Questioner
Richard Holden Portrait
Richard Holden
(Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent driving examiners recruited by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) were (a) in post and (b) delivering practical car driving tests in i) January 2026, ii) February 2026 and iii) March 2026.

Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 17th April 2026

The answer to Question 122532, 20 March 2026, provides data for the months January 2026 and February 2026 respectively.

The table below shows how many full-time equivalent (FTE) driving examiners were in post, and out of those, how many were available to deliver practical car driving tests in March 2026.

FTE DEs in-post *

Available to deliver practical car driving tests

1649.13

1,604

* - Includes those who are in training to be a driving examiner.

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