Shaun Woodward – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Shaun Woodward on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect changes to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency vision testing contract will have on independent optical practices.

Stephen Hammond

As part of the procurement process, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency identified that 2,009 optical practices carried out vision testing services. The new contract means that independent practices are no longer required to carry out on average 20 assessments per year. This equates to around 10 hours of work.