Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent driving examiners recruited by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency were (a) in post and (b) delivering practical car driving tests in April 2026.

In April 2026 there were 1,618 full-time equivalent (FTE) driving examiners in post, and out of those, 1,604 were available to deliver practical car driving tests.

The national average waiting time (when a minimum of 10% of test slots are available) for a car practical test was 22.3 weeks in April 2026, with the median waiting time (the time between first test booking and test taken) at 9.1 weeks.