Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Standards

(asked on 14th April 2026) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 20th April 2026

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

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