Driving Tests: Standards

James Duddridge
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether the Driving Standards Agency plans to review its code of practice with regard to guidance on (a) population density and (b) proximity to a driving test centre.

Jim Fitzpatrick
The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) currently has no plans to review its “Code of Practice on Written Consultations—Driving Test Centres.”

Ministers agreed the code of practice when it was revised in July 2005. This code of practice is available on the DSA website at:

http://www.dsa.gov.uk/Consultation.asp?id=SXBAF2-A7825C59&cat=418