Buses: Testing

(asked on 17th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the additional Bus MOT testers required by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency to test all vehicles due an MOT since March 2020.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 23rd July 2020

In March 2020, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) took the difficult decision to suspend most MOTs for lorries, buses and trailers to support the Government’s efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Since then it has been working hard to keep people safe, whilst still providing a critical worker testing service to support the national emergency response.

The DVSA is managing the reintroduction of vehicle testing and demand for MOTs by:

  1. using existing testing resource efficiently through an overtime scheme and redeployment of duties; and

  2. implementing a phased return to testing by:

      • giving 2 three-month MOT exemptions to those vehicles whose MOTs were originally due in March and April, and;

      • giving 1 three-month MOT exemption initially, to those vehicles whose MOTs were originally due from June – initially this will be done for those MOTs due in June, July and August.

      • giving vehicles due an MOT in May an exemption until August.

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