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New guidelines for driving checks have been set out by the DVSA below its plan to cut back ready instances and assist drivers get on the street.

The company says it should evaluate and enhance the principles for reserving driving checks, aiming to make the system extra environment friendly and simpler to make use of.

The common ready time in England at present stands at 21 weeks, or simply below 5 months – however can typically attain six months or extra.

The change is only one a part of a seven-step plan to deliver enhancements to the present system. The DVSA has additionally introduced that will probably be recruiting 450 driving examiners throughout the nation to enhance the provision of checks.

Figures launched by the Department for Transport (DfT) earlier this 12 months indicated that the variety of checks taken reached a report stage within the 12 months to the top of March, at 1.9 million.

The measures may also see a rise to the interval for altering or cancelling a check with out shedding cash, in a bid to discourage late cancellations. This interval will rise from three to 10 working days.

This will come alongside modifications to the system utilized by driving instructors to e-book checks in an try to unencumber extra slots, in addition to a name for proof to look at find out how to forestall candidates being ripped off by third events shopping for up slots.

Lilian Greenwood, minister for the way forward for roads, stated: “Passing your driving test is a life changing opportunity for millions – but sky-high waiting times for tests in recent years have denied that opportunity to too many people.

“No one should have to wait six months when they’re ready to pass, travel to the other side of the country to take a driving test or be ripped off by unscrupulous websites just because they can’t afford to wait.

“The scale of the backlog we have inherited is huge, but today’s measures are a crucial step to tackle the long driving test wait times, protect learner drivers from being exploited, and support more people to hit the road.”

In October a parliamentary debate heard that delays to driving checks had hit trainee paramedics and an aspiring police officer.

Labour’s Kevin McKenna advised MPs that he met a constituent whose daughter was “desperate” to change into a police officer.

The MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in Kent stated: “She can’t start a job because she needs to be able to drive for the job, she’ll be working in shifts, all she could find was a driving test months down the line in Birmingham, 150 miles away. She’s one of the luckier constituents in that she could actually find one.”