2,123
of 5,000 signatures
To Chief Executive of DVSA Loveday Ryder
Petition text
The staff retention issue is true at Practical Test Centres across the UK, where the Examiners salary does not reflect area pay, and even unqualified local workers are paid more thousands more then professionally qualified Driving Examiners. There has been an escalating Examiner recruitment crisis after the government made changes to Examiner pay and conditions in 2010. The DVSA figures comparing Covid years, where all Practical Tests were cancelled for sections of time, to non Covid years, and blaming the candidates for booking earlier, are distractions from not meeting current Practical Driving Test demand. Review the Examiners salaries to comparable jobs in areas, including Driving Instructors in that area, and increase their salaries until you can recruit and retain your staff, if necessary increasing the Practical Test fee from £62 to £72 in order to fund doing so.
Our core demands:
1) Reinstate the technical qualification bonus that they pay to MOT Testers but not currently to Examiners.
2) Pay the London bonus to all sites in the London commuter belt, including Reading, not just those in the M25
3) Increase pay for all examiners through the UK, in order to make the profession more attractive again.
16 Jul 2024
Guardian Article sums up all of the current problems with getting Driving Tests
6 Jul 2024
On Average 15 Practical Driving Test Examiners Quit every month
28 Jun 2024
Waiting times have officially increased by an additional 20 Percent in 2024
25 May 2024
Driving Practical Test record shortage leads to Black Market Tests
14 May 2024
Learners traveling 48 percent further to get Practical Tests, and escalating
7 May 2024
Latest Nonsense Stats from the DVSA on Driving Tests provision
28 Apr 2024
DVSA wrongly blames Learners for what they should be doing; booking Tests
27 Apr 2024
Reading Driving Practical Test Centre to be turned into flats in 2024
19 Apr 2024
Learners who have lost jobs due to lack of Practical Tests on local radio
13 Apr 2024
Driving Examiners skills not valued by the DVSA, creating Practical Test crisis
26 Mar 2024
DVSA in UK turning away £200 million pounds in Practical Test Fees
22 Mar 2024
Reading Practical Test Centre has lost another Examiner
20 Feb 2024
Never-ending backlog predicted for Practical Driving Tests
3 Dec 2023
Waiting times for Practical Driving Tests have officially increased
19 Nov 2023
Another Berkshire Resident travels 100 miles for a Practical Test
12 Nov 2023
Losing 15,000 Reading Practical Driving Tests
29 Oct 2023
More Practical Driving Test Centres have no Test Dates
17 Oct 2023
Practical Test travel has made the local news and 'Rip off Britain'
12 Oct 2023
Practical Tests, not more disingenuous information.
Increase number of Practical Driving Tests by retaining DVSA staff
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