Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria the Government used to decide which company was awarded the contract to undertake sight tests for the DVLA.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s current eyesight test contract was awarded on 5 March 2014. The evaluation criteria used to award the contract were cost and quality. The detailed quality criteria were:

• nationwide coverage

• sub-contracting/recruitment process

• vision testing and process requirements

• process improvements

• testing improvements

• management information