Driving Tests: Staff
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent driving examiners recruited by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) were (a) in post and (b) delivering practical car driving tests in (i) April 2026 and (ii) May 2026.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
In April 2026 there were 1,618 full-time equivalent (FTE) driving examiners (DE) in post, and out of those, 1,604 were available to deliver practical car driving tests. In April 2026, 16 DEs started conducting tests. The data for May is still being finalised and will be available later in June.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/driving-test-and-theory-test-data-cars shows the number of car practical driving tests conducted up to April 2026.
The table below shows the number of overtime tests for the period April to May 2026.
Month | Number of overtime tests |
April 2026 | 30,582 |
May 2026 | 31,867 |
The answer, 20 April 2026, to written question 127306, provided data for March 2026.
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