HC Deb 31 March 1965 vol 709 cc240-1W
Mr. Boston

asked the Minister of Transport if he will state the driving test pass rate for the Faversham constituency area and for the county of Kent, respectively, for each of the past five years to the nearest convenient date, giving the percentage of those who passed the first time they took the test, the percentage who passed the second time, the percentage who passed the third time, and the percentage who passed after taking the test more than three times.

Mr. Tom Fraser

There is no driving test centre in the Faversham constituency area and I have no means of knowing where residents in that area take their tests. In 1964 the pass rate at the twelve centres in Kent was 49 percent. Corresponding figures for previous years are not available because, after one year, driving test records are kept only on a Traffic Area basis. The records do not differentiate between candidates' first and successive tests.