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Driving Tests: Staff

Asked by Jacob CollierLabourDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 20 November 2025UIN 91213

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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's joint press notice entitled Mirror, signal, manoeuvres: Military driving examiners mobilised to cut test backlog, published on 12 November 2025, which areas the military drivi

Answered by Simon Lightwood

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has accepted the resource of Defence Driving Examiners (DDEs), to be based at the driving test centres with the highest demand near their MOD base or home location.

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