Driving Standards Agency: Closures

(asked on 27th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test stations have closed in each constituency since 2010.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 16th April 2018

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has closed nine driving test centres since 2010; this consists of four car driving test centres, one motorcycle driving test centre and four lorry driving test centres. The sites were closed either because the usage agreement was terminated by the landlord, the property was sold by the site landlord or the site was no longer suitable for testing. The following table shows the name of each driving test centre that has closed, the type of test that was carried out and the constituency:

Name of driving test centre

Type of test

Constituency

Aberporth

Motorcycle

Ceredigion

Ashton-under-Lyne

Car

Ashton Under Lyne

Bromsgrove

Car

Bromsgrove

Congleton

Car

Congleton

Gloucester

Lorry

Gloucester

Islay Island

Lorry

Argyll and Bute

Neath

Lorry

Neath

Rutherglen

Car

Rutherglen and Hamilton West

Simonswood (Liverpool)

Lorry

West Lancashire

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