FOI release
DVSA FOI disclosure log, April 2023
Updated 28 March 2024
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| Request reference | Request status | Request summary | Date the response was issued |
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| 2303-014247 | Successful | policies which aim to address the difficulty in trying to booking a driving test in the UK but especially the London area and also what steps are being taken to stop fraudulent or opportunistic agents or individuals block booking test dates and then selling them extortionate prices to genuine learner drivers. Please also separately outline: 1) the number of test dates made available to learners within the M25 area (if you need to narrow it down, then all test centres in the London area) 2) the current wait times as at 1 March 2023, to find earliest driving test date within the London or M25 area 3) Outline why (if true) other people other than genuine learner drivers are able to book driving test and then sell this on for £200-£300 | 11/04/2023 |
| 2303-014377 | Successful | 1. What the new DVSA suitability and conviction policy is in respect of convictions. Including spent convictions and time frames that must have past before someone can be considered a fit and proper person. 2. What the new DVSA suitability and conviction policy is in respect of driving or motoring convictions. Including how many penalty points would be acceptable, the policy on major and minor offences and sanctions for motoring convictions. 3. How the DVSA will apply these tests to instructors who hold a DAS or CBT qualification and have been deemed fit and proper people? 4. How the fit and proper test is curentley applied to instructors and how this will be applied once these requirements are in place? Please include any corresponding policy. 5. Why is the DBS requirement set at a basic level? Would an enhanced disclosure not be more appropriate to inform you of anyone on a barred list? 6. Was there a public consultation prior to these changes and where can I find the information and results of this? 7. Are there any further changes planned or curentley under consultation? 8. Are the DVSA planning to change the check test to reflect the instructors qualification? (I.e observing a DAS lesson for DAS instructors. | 03/04/2023 |
| 2303-015042 | Partially successful | the average time between learner car drivers passing their car theory test and the date of their first car driving practical test. Please provide the average waiting time for a car driving practical test date using the DVSA's own calculation method. Please provide data for 1st March 2022 to 1st March 2023 Please provide data for 1st March 2018 to 1st March 2019 Please provide data for the UK split out by England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. | 06/04/2023 |
| 2303-015093 | Partially successful | the names of all registered Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) consortiums. Aligned with training providers listed who are members of those individual consortia. Plus, the names of the top fifty deliverers of Driver CPC hours in 2022 calendar year, with hours aligned to each provider. I see that there was a FOI back in 2013 as found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/names-of-driver-cpc-consortiums/names-of-driver-cpc-consortiums which may help you collate the data. | 13/04/2023 |
| 2303-015145 | Successful | data on the number of practical car driving tests conducted and passed for every calendar date during 2021, please? Can I also request data on the number of practical car driving tests conducted and passed for every calendar date during 2022? | 17/04/2023 |
| 2303-015184 | Successful | average salary for a UK Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) tester at ATF sites. | 05/04/2023 |
| 2303-015188 | Successful | 1. The total number of driving tests that were carried out in the UK in the last calendar year, and how many of these were marked as a fail due to a 'major' error. 2. The number of driving tests failed due to a 'major' error for each year for the past five calendar years. 3. A breakdown of what each 'major' was recorded as by driving examiners, for example 'signals', or 'awareness'. If possible, please provide this information for each of the past five calendar years. | 12/04/2023 |
| 2303-015334 | Partially successful | A breakdown of test statistics for each examiner, by month, for the previous rolling year. Showing total number of dangerous, serious, examiner took action and driving faults for Jupiter road test centre in Norwich. | 19/04/2023 |
| 2303-015366 | Successful | Questions about spot checks on names bus/coach companies, specifically: How many spot checks have been carried out in the last 5 years What is the policy on carrying out spot checks? Who decides which company to spot check and why? Who decides when to carry out the spot check and why? Who decides the frequency of the spot check, and how is the frequency determined? | 12/04/2023 |
| 2303-015390 | Successful | Question 1: In reference to the below Driver CPC Monthly Statistics data set, could you please advise when the next quarterly update is going to be made available? The most recently published set of data only goes up to September 2022. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/driver-cpc-qualification-and-training-data Question 2: In the 'Notes' tab, rows 21 and 22 of the above CPC monthly statistics document, could you please confirm that these statements are accurate. So for example, for all DQC cards issued in August 2019 (67,499), were all of their start dates for these cards between the 1st and 31st August 2019, or does this 67,499 also include DQC with start dates in future months? If so, could this data be re-ordered to only include DQC with a start date for that specific month? Question 3: For calendar years 2022, 2021, 2020 & 2019, please confirm the following figures: a) Total number of valid HGV DQC cards b) Total number of valid PCV DQC cards c) Total number of drivers holding both cards | 12/04/2023 |
| 2303-015392 | Successful | Questioning figures given on FOI ref | 05/04/2023 |
| 2303-015476 | Partially successful | 1. Which 20 locations have the highest percentage of passes first time on their driving tests in the last five years? 2. In each of the last five years, how many attempts on average does it take for a learner driver to pass? 3. In each of the last five years, which time of day has seen the highest percentage of learner drivers pass first time? 4. What’s the date with the highest percentage of drivers passing their test first time in each of the last five years? 5. Which month has the highest percentage of drivers passing their test first time in each of the last five years? 6. What’s the most common major fault in each of the last five years that learner drivers fail their driving test on? 7. In each of the last five years, which ages are most likely to fail their driving test the first time? 8. How many people have been caught trying to cheat on their driving test in each the last five years? | 19/04/2023 |
| 2303-015852 | Successful | Number of unsecured loads detected during roadside enforcement checks 2003-2023. | 26/04/2023 |
| 2303-015886 | Successful | an accurate number for the total amount of accidents and on road serious incidents, during live tests in the last 7 months for Darlington Driving Test Centre. | 19/04/2023 |
| 2303-015896 | Successful | number of practical car test slots available and the number of slots booked, for the next six months by week and by DTC. | 12/04/2023 |
| 2303-015942 | Successful | Since week commencing 5th December 2022, by week, how many driving test examiners have taken part in Industrial Action and then did overtime the following weekend. | 28/04/2023 |
| 2303-016049 | Successful | 1. how many MOT disciplinary cessation letters were sent out by MDT from the whole of 2021 & 2022, and how many of these have failed a quality audit check ? 2. who conducts these QC checks and if they are independent from the MDT ? 3. When an appeal against cessation/request for an informal hearing is requested. Which department initially reviews the case? 4. Who actually decides that a request for an informal hearing is granted and which department to they work for ? 5. What criteria do they use, and do they have an official form to complete? | 12/04/2023 |
| 2303-016152 | Successful | In 2020, DVSA announced that it was planning to contract-in driving assessors from RoSPA to act as Driving Examiners on a temporary basis. I would like to know: Was any DVSA funds or other form of tax payers money spent in order to explore this possibility? If so, how much and for what reason? Is this work continuing post-pandemic. If so please provide details? Has DVSA discussed this concept, attended meetings or similar with any organisations other than ROSPA? | 26/04/2023 |
| 2304-016763 | Successful | When companies are granted Earned Recognition Auditor status, what checks are conducted on Companies House details? The Earned Recognition audit requires a check on the legal entity of operators. There is at least one of your auditors listed on your website under the legal entity of another company. Its website, terms and conditions, all of its marketing, and social media are also under another legal entity. Given this would be an Earned Recognition failure, how has DVSA allowed this to happen? | 27/04/2023 |