FOI release
DVSA FOI disclosure log, June 2024
Updated 7 November 2024
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| Request reference | Request status | Request summary | Date the response was issued |
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| 2405-046852 | Successful | and am looking for some information on the pass rates for the theory test. Specifically I would like to know the percentage of people that pass the test on their first attempt. After hours of searching I can only find published data for overall pass rates. As I am seeing an increasing number of people telling me they tried to "wing it" on their first attempt as it was multiple choice and can't have been that hard, I feel it would be a useful statistic to publish. All the research I have done suggests the pass rate has fluctuated at around 50% in recent years. However this is of all tests conducted not just first attempts. That means the 1st time pass rate will be significantly lower than this. However I am sure a lot of people who are not as numerically savvy are seeing this figure, assuming it means 50% pass first time so it isn't that hard and if they give it a go they have a 50/50 chance of passing. | 04/06/2024 |
| 2405-047000 | Successful | Is it possible to request the spot check results which were done on school, academy or other educational establishment's property instead? | 06/06/2024 |
| 2405-047062 | Successful | inform me of the number of complaints, general enquiries, Ministerial Correspondence, Parliamentary Questions and Treat Officials your organisation have received in 2022 and 2023 calendar years. | 06/06/2024 |
| 2405-047393 | Successful | 1) When a driving test candidate books a car driving test online with the DVSA and indicates themselves to have a hearing loss by selecting the "Hard of hearing" option when declaring a disability, what efforts does the DVSA take to accommodate their disability during the test? For example, are visual communication means employed (hand signs, written cards, etc)? 2) Of these efforts, which are considered legal entitlements to driving test candidates who request them and declared their hearing loss by selecting the "Hard of Hearing" option when booking? 3) If a driving examiner terminates the test on the grounds that the candidate's hearing loss could not be accommodated despite having been declared upon booking, what actions does the DVSA take? In particular, are any of the following given? i) A refund. ii) A formal email describing the outcomes of the test and/or why it was terminated. iii) A formal email describing the next steps for the candidate to take the test with their hearing disability properly accommodated, or otherwise a formal email describing why their hearing disability cannot be accommodated. | 12/06/2024 |
| 2405-047399 | Successful | 1. How many drivers have had Driver CPC hours removed from the R&E record by DVSA due to unnecessary repeating a Driver CPC course; in the last 12 months? 2. Apart from warning letters, how many Approved Centres have had action taken against them for 'allowing' a driver to unnecessary repeat a Driver CPC course in their 5-year DCPC cycle; in the last 12 month? 3. Under what legislation, Act, Directive, Confirmatory Statement, Scheme of Control requirement, etc could DVSA take action against an Approved Centre for knowingly 'allowing' a driver to attend a course/module that they have attended before in their 5-year DCPC cycle. | 11/06/2024 |
| 2405-047540 | Successful | This is a freedom of information request relating to private health insurance for employees over the last three full financial years (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24). Please include the following information: • How many staff are receiving private health insurance paid for by your organisation? • What is the total cost of providing private health insurance to all employees? If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request. | 12/06/2024 |
| 2405-047925 | Successful | Would it be possible to send me the updated request in relation to question 5 of my previous freedom of information request? It relates to question 5: You have kindly provided me with figures up to the end of 2023. For this question only – can you please provide me with the figures for January, February, March, April and May (if May is available by the time the FOI is processed) 5. (Broken down by each month for the years stated above) Can you please provide the waiting times to sit a practical car test (the average length of time between booking a test and the test date, not including appointments that come up as one-off cancellations) | 17/06/2024 |
| 2405-047938 | Successful | While the admin staff are doing Practical Tests are they paid on what I assume is a lower admin pay band, or are they paid whilst doing Tests on what I assume is a higher Examiner pay band? | 12/06/2024 |
| 2405-048006 | Successful | I would like an anominalised report of the individual driving instructors pass and fails rates please for Camborne DTC | 19/06/2024 |
| 2405-048205 | Successful | The Vehicle models of new trailer registrations in 2023. | 12/06/2024 |
| 2405-048331 | Successful | It has been pointed out to me that the yearly figure you sent across about number of driving tests between April 2023 to April 2024 says on it 'year to date' despite the fact that I asked end of April 2024, and the figures should have been available at the start of April for the 2023 to 2024 year. Please can you confirm to me the number of Tests that you conducted last year? Secondly, The same question is true of the total number of Driving Tests conducted at Reading, I wish for a total number of car, ADI part 2, ADI part 3, standard checks, motorbike and lorry tests for the years stated. The information you have provided is incomplete. Please provide this information for 2008, 2010, 2018, 20121, 2022 and 2023 Thirdly, For the South East please can you provide the total data for the Reading, Farnbough, Chertsey, Newbury when the site was called that, substituting it's name to Greenham when the site moved, High Wycombe, and Slough Test Centres for 2008, 2010, 2018, 20121, 2022 and 2023 | 20/06/2024 |
| 2405-048584 | Successful | to provide the number of DVSA examiners in Newbury and Reading. | 12/06/2024 |
| 2405-048586 | Successful | I am writing in reference to the attached MOT Compliance report, which we received last year. Is there a more up-to-date report with the latest figures available? | 17/06/2024 |
| 2405-048688 | Successful | many people are currently waiting to take their ADI part 2 test at Shrewsbury and how many ADI part 2 tests are current done a week at Shrewsbury. | 25/06/2024 |
| 2406-048999 | Successful | I am after information relating to driving time regulations for light commercial vehicles. If the request proves too broad, or exceeds the allocated time allowance for an FOI request, could you please inform me? In particular, I am after the following information: 1. How many drivers of commercial vehicles under 3500kg GVW were fined for elapsing driving time regulations between 1st January 2023 to 31st December 2023? For Q1, please provide a month-by-month breakdown of the figures For Q1, please provide a regional breakdown of the figures For Q1, please provide a breakdown by age of drivers 2. In total, what is the total monetary amount that drivers of commercial vehicles under 3500kg GVW were fined for elapsing driving time regulations between 1st January 2023 to 31st December 2023? For Q2, please provide a month-by-month breakdown of the figure For Q2, please provide a regional breakdown of the figure For Q2, please provide a breakdown by age of drivers | 20/06/2024 |
| 2406-049079 | Successful | How many cars towing a trailer; with a car that weighs up to and including 3,500kg MAM. were subsequently found to be over the limit of 3,500kg MAM | 13/06/2024 |
| 2406-049534 | Successful | MOT test data for Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) and trailers. Using DVSA’s Operator Compliance Rick Scoring (OCRS) bands, Blue (Earned Recognition operators), Green, Amber, Red and Grey, I would request the following MOT data, separated for both HGVs and, where possible, trailers (where you are able to obtain that data): 1) Overall pass rate. 2) First time pass rate. 3) Pass rate including Pass after Rectification (PRS). 4) Fail rate. And would request this information for the following periods: a) 2021/22. b) 2022/23. c) 2023/24. | 25/06/2024 |
| 2405-047462 | Partially successful | Please can you provide a list for the following test centres showing how many driving tests have been purchased by driving schools in the area each year for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. If possible, please respond by listing the name of the driving school and how many tests they have purchased each year. | 11/06/2024 |
| 2405-047689 | Partially successful | 1 How many bus and coach fires including those classified as thermal incidents have there been in the UK for the last two years from today’s date? 2 Can you advise me on how many catastrophic bus and coach fires there have been in the UK during the past two years? 3 Can you provide me with data on how many individuals have suffered any injuries or adverse effects? 4 can you break down the bus and coach fires by company ? 5 can you please give me data on a regional basis, county basis and a country basis? 6 can you confirm what information you have collected that indicates the causes of the fires, the categories and the the number in each data set? 7 can you confirm how many of the catastrophic bus fires had vehicles with fire suppression units? 8 Are you able to provide an executive summary of your findings, your recommendations and an analytical overview of if bus and coach fires are more prevalent now than the previous two years before this request.? 9 how many E bus fires have there been in the last two years? 10 how many diesel buses have been involved in a bus fire ? 11 how many buses and coaches have been involved in arson? 12 how many bus or coach fires causes are there no explanations for? 13 how many electrical failures have caused a bus or coach fire? 14 how many bus or coach fires have been caused by braking systems? | 20/06/2024 |
| 2405-048216 | Partially successful | Questions regarding IT equipment and procurement | 21/06/2024 |
| 2405-048366 | Partially successful | Can you please tell me how many vehicles failed MOT in the last full year of records Class 4 cars Class 7 vans Also, the number of cars and vans officially scrapped in the last year of records. Segregated by both age and County | 12/06/2024 |
| 2406-049001 | Partially successful | I request data on coroners' Prevention of Future Deaths reports (PFDs or Reg 28 letters) received by the DVSA. Can I please request the following: 1. the total number of PFDs where DVSA was a listed addressee from inception (July 2013) until April 2024 (or the most recent available data), broken down as annual counts for each calendar year (e.g. for 2013, the number of reports from Jul to Dec; for 2014 the number of reports from January to December). 2. the total number of PFDs where DVSA was copied for information as an ‘interested person’ from inception (July 2013) until April 2024 (or the most recent available data), broken down as annual counts for each calendar year (e.g. for 2013 the number of reports from Jul to Dec; for 2014 the number of reports from January to December). | 26/06/2024 |