Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has she made on improving the availability of driving tests in the Huntingdon constituency.

The Government set out a comprehensive package of measures in April 2025 to tackle long waiting times across the whole of Great Britain, aiming to deliver around 10,000 additional tests per month. A key step was reintroducing overtime incentives. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) conducted 1.99 million tests between April 2025 and March 2026, a record and 8.6% (159,000) higher than the previous year.

DVSA has also made changes to make the booking system fairer, as well as continuing to run national recruitment campaigns for driving examiners (DE) across the country.

From recent recruitment for test centres serving Huntingdon, DVSA currently has 8 potential new DEs booked onto training courses, with a further 11 potential new DEs undergoing pre-employment checks.