Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving examiners were recruited between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022; and how many of these were still employed by the Driver and Vehicle Safety Agency as of 31 October 2023.
To stabilise its workforce, the DVSA is reviewing the contracts of those driving examiners who were recruited on a fixed term basis and converting these to permanent contracts.
The DVSA has increased its training capacity to support more new entrant driving examiners.
The DVSA's examiner recruitment campaigns continue to be successful but due to the extremely competitive job market there are some areas of Great Britain that are challenging to recruit in.