Driving Tests: Jarrow

(asked on 25th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much annual rent is paid by the DVSA for the South Shields Test Centre in the Jarrow constituency.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 30th March 2022

The ground lease at South Shields driving test centre (DTC) ends on 19/12/2119.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) does not pay annual rent for South Shields DTC, but it is responsible for all the annual running costs including maintenance.

Many of the sites used by the DVSA deliver more than just the driving test service, and vary in size and capacity. The DVSA estimates the average annual rental of single purpose driving test sites is £16,400 per annum.

There has only been one lease over the last 10 years, which is the current ground lease.

The following data shows the income from driving tests at South Shields DTC over the last five years:

  • 2016 = £286,452.00
  • 2017 = £297,113.00
  • 2018 = £262,725.00
  • 2019 = £282,882.00
  • 2020 = £143,047.00
  • 2021 = £219,279.00

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