Driving Tests
(asked on 8th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test examiners have (a) left and (b) been recruited by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in the last (i) one, (ii) two and (iii) five years.
Driving examiner starters have to pass a compulsory training course in order to become fully qualified examiners. If they do not pass this course they are then dismissed. Information on starters and leavers is shown in the table below:
| Starters | Leavers | Of the leavers, those who did not pass the course |
In the past financial year | 232 | 152 | 8 |
In the past two financial years | 389 | 288 | 28 |
In the past five financial years | 614 | 590 | 47 |