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Action on driving test backlog
South Wales Evening Post
|November 14, 2025
MILITARY driving examiners will help deliver up to 6,500 more tests in tough new measures to tackle the driving test backlog, the UK Government has announced.
There will also be a new limit on rearranging tests, and a ban on third parties booking on behalf of learners in order to make the system fairer, UK transport secretary Heidi Alexander has said.
The Department for Transport, working in partnership with the Ministry of Defence (MOD), has announced 36 defence driving examiners (DDEs), made up of civilian MOD personnel, will help conduct driving tests one day a week for 12 months.
The extra personnel will be focusing primarily on car driving tests but with flexibility to carry out vocational tests, for bus and lorry drivers, if needed. They will be based at the driving test centres with the highest demand near their MOD base or home location.
This story is from the November 14, 2025 edition of South Wales Evening Post.
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