{"value":{"id":1817993,"askingMemberId":5291,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-06-30T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-07-02T00:00:00","uin":"63957","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the availability of (a) HGV driving test slots and (b) HGV driving test examiners.","answeringBodyId":27,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Transport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4029,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-07-07T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>As of 30 June 2025, there were 15,918 vocational practical driving tests booked and 1,216 tests available in the 10-week booking window</p><p></p><p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is seeing some of the highest demand for car practical driving tests it has ever seen.</p><p></p><p>Whilst DVSA are continuing to deploy examiner resource to vocational testing, it needs to ensure this is done in a way which balances all of the demands on DVSA’s examiner resource.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Tests","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1817993","method":"GET"}]}