Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many additional practical car driving tests were delivered by DVSA in each month since February 2026 compared with the same months in the previous year; of those additional tests, how many were delivered by (i) examiners working overtime, (ii) warrant card holders temporarily deployed from other DVSA roles and (iii) newly recruited examiners; and during which months warrant card holders from non-examiner roles were deployed to conduct practical driving tests.
www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/driving-test-and-theory-test-data-cars shows the number of car practical driving tests conducted up to March 2026.
The below table shows the number of overtime tests since February 2026. Further information is not available.
Month | Number of Overtime tests |
Feb-26 | 27,141 |
Mar-26 | 31,929 |