FOI release
DVSA FOI disclosure log, January 2024
Updated 7 November 2024
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| Request reference | Request status | Request summary | Date the response was issued |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2312-036486 | Successful | By calendar years, the number of visits to the MOT Tester Training Assessment webpage and link clicks to the IMI website. | 08/01/2024 |
| 2312-036713 | Partially successful | How many L-test slots were not used and were unused for the period 6 November 2023 – 3 December 2023? | 09/01/2024 |
| 2312-035881 | Partially successful | From 2018 to 2023, the number of people who were caught attempting to cheat on theory and practical driving tests. | 09/01/2024 |
| 2401-038068 | Partially successful | The average waiting times for driving tests in the UK, and number of tests taken between January-December 2023. | 25/01/2024 |
| 2401-037156 | Successful | A breakdown of all practical driving tests, including the test centre and the candidate's postcode, for 3 August 2023 to 31 December 2023 | 22/01/2024 |
| 2312-035864 | Successful | For February 2020 and September 2023, and test centres with a GL and NN postcode, as well as those in England: • The number of drivers waiting to take their practical tests at test centres • The average time between drivers booking and sitting a practical test • The number of driving test examiners working at the test centres | 03/01/2024 |
| 2401-037817 | Successful | Questions regarding DVSA court action, the number of MOT appeals in 2023 and DVSA staff. | 23/01/2024 |
| 2312-036797 | Successful | The number of ERS Certificates issued between April 2021 to March 2022. | 05/01/2024 |
| 2312-037018 | Successful | For 2023, how many Car MOT appeals have been upheld as a number and as a percentage? | 11/01/2024 |
| 2312-035868 | Partially successful | For 8 December 2023 at Swindon Driving Test Centre, the number of car driving tests booked to take place, the number of candidates that passed their test and if any booked tests were not attended by candidates. For Swindon LGV test centre, the number of car driving tests booked from January to December 2023. | 02/01/2024 |
| 2401-037667 | Partially successful | The number of driving tests booked, and the waiting times to book a test at Chester, Crewe, Newcastle Under Lyme, Owestry, Shrewsbury, Stoke on Trent, Telford and Wrexham Driving Test Centre’s between December 2021 and December 2023. The number of learner drivers with a postcode in SY13 that booked a driving test and where they took their test between December 2021 and December 2023. | 31/01/2024 |
| 2312-035882 | Successful | For the financial years 2018/19 to 2022/23, how many UK and overseas registered lorries were found with manipulated / falsified tachographs and how many fines were issued each year for the offences discovered? What proportion of vehicles did that represent and how many roadside checks were carried out on lorries during the years above? | 04/01/2024 |
| 2401-037120 | Partially successful | From April 2019 to December 2023, the number of practical car driving test appointments booked that were recorded as not being attended and the reasons stated for the no show. How many driving tests were scheduled to take place and what percentage did the no-shows represent? What is the waiting time to sit a practical car test? | 23/01/2024 |
| 2401-037927 | Partially successful | The contact details for all Authorised Testing Facilities in the UK and the number of ATF's and DVSA testers presently testing. | 24/01/2024 |
| 2312-036846 | Partially successful | The number of test taken, and fails, in England, Wales and Bury St Edmonds in the last 5 years. | 11/01/2024 |
| 2312-037017 | Successful | Details on DVSA's Data Protection Officers’ Training and Qualifications. | 16/01/2024 |
| 2401-037153 | Successful | Details regarding the Ashford Check Site and DVSA’s policy, and staff qualifications, for use of dynamic weighbridges. | 30/01/2024 |
| 2401-037075 | Successful | For the financial years 2020 to 2023, all expenditure made by DVSA on translation, interpretation, and language services. | 23/01/2024 |
| 2401-037168 | Successful | The average waiting times for driving tests in the UK from January-December 2023 | 12/01/2024 |
| 2312-036724 | Successful | What is the average waiting time for a practical test for Glasgow now, and in August and in September 2023? | 10/01/2024 |
| 2401-037625 | Successful | The pass rate for tests taken with manual gearbox cars. | 18/01/2024 |
| 2312-036732 | Successful | The driving test wait times for Peterhead, Scotland Driving Test Centre. | 08/01/2024 |
| 2312-036010 | Successful | The number of Ford 1.0 litre 3 cylinder turbo Ecoboost engines that have had engine failures. | 08/01/2024 |
| 2401-038110 | Successful | Information relating to the Volvo XC-40 from 2021 onwards. | 23/01/2024 |
| 2401-037935 | Partially successful | For 2023 to January 2024, and test centres in East and West Sussex, how many members of the public cheated on their written and practical tests, were charged and convicted for cheating offences, and had their driving licences revoked for cheating? | 30/01/2024 |
| 2401-037837 | Successful | Details of DVSA or equivalent personnel at Ashford Check Site. | 18/01/2024 |
| 2312-035867 | Successful | What systems are in place to prevent a manual licence being issued in error? For the last 5 financial years how many manual licences were issued instead of an automatic licence, and how many times were manual licence's reissued as an automatic licence when DVSAs systems highlighted this error? | 03/01/2024 |
| 2312-035952 | Partially successful | For all test centres, the number of people aged between 25 – 75 years old who passed their manual and automatic driving test between 2019 to 2023. | 09/01/2024 |
| 2312-036735 | Successful | How many organisations/person’s enforceable leases have DVSA requested sight of since June 2018? | 15/01/2024 |
| 2312-037019 | Successful | The number of car driving tests booked in for 2024 and the number of practical car driving tests booked via DVSA from May to December. | 22/01/2024 |
| 2401-037845 | Successful | Questions regarding DVSA investigation processes. | 22/01/2024 |