Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to reduce the length of time a person who has had a seizure while asleep must surrender their driving licence from one year to three months without further seizures.

There are no plans to reduce the length of time for surrendering a driving licence from one year to three months where a person has had an epileptic seizure whilst asleep.

Drivers who have suffered a sleep seizure over 12 months ago and have only had sleep seizures since (i.e. no awake seizures), may be licensed to drive, if it has been established over the 12 months that the history or pattern of the attacks have only ever occurred while asleep.

Rules around the length of time a driver must surrender their driving licence following a seizure are governed in the UK by European Directives. The minimum standards for the issue of driving licences must be implemented by all member states.