Four new driving examiners recruited for Poole after MP pressure

Four new driving examiners are being recruited in Poole after Mid Dorset and North Poole MP Vikki Slade raised concerns about the ongoing driving test backlog affecting young people in the area.

Vikki was contacted by a constituent whose grandson struggled to book a driving test through the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). Despite logging in early, they were left in a queue of more than seventeen thousand people, wrongly flagged as a bot, and eventually unable to secure a test. Read here