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Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Training

Question for Department for Transport

UIN 81976, tabled on 25 November 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many available HGV vocational tests were unused in each of the last four weeks.

Answered on

30 November 2021

The table below shows the numbers of available slots for vocational testing (Large Goods Vehicle (LGV) & Passenger Carrying Vehicle (PCV)). The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is not able to report LGV and PCV separately.

Available slots

Booked slots

% Available

w/c 25.10.21

546

2,328

19%

w/c 01.11.21

394

2,461

14%

w/c 08.11.21

321

2,617

11%

w/c 15.11.21

299

2,621

10%

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