Driving Instruction: Standards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent formal consultation his Department has undertaken with Approved Driving Instructors and their representative bodies regarding the standards check system.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
When the current standards checks system was implemented in 2014, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) conducted a full consultation. The system has not changed and, therefore, there has been no formal consultation since those changes.
The current process is designed in a way that any and all approved driving instructors (ADI) could be called for a standards check at any time by DVSA. When called for a standards check ADIs must demonstrate their ability to teach pupils as set out in the national standard for driver and rider training.
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