Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency on stopping people using false identities to take driving tests.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is working hard to increase driving test availability by recruiting more examiners, particularly at test centres that serve rural communities, such as Boston and Peterborough.

Since April 2021, the DVSA’s recovery measures, which include conducting out-of-hours testing, such as on public holidays and weekends, asking all those qualified to conduct tests but who do not do so as part of their current day job, to return to conducting tests, and asking recently retired driving examiners to return, have created over one million extra car test appointments. On average, this has created approximately 40,000 extra car test appointments each month.

To ensure Great Britain’s roads remain among the safest in the world, the DVSA has robust measures in place to stop people using false identities when taking a driving test.