Robert Flello – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Flello on 2016-04-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce HGV testing waiting lists at Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency testing centres.

Andrew Jones

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is reducing vocational waiting times by recruiting more examiners, improving its forecasting model to better match resource with demand and redeploying examiners from lower wait centres to those with higher waiting times.