§ Mr. Ian Lloydasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will publish a detailed analysis of the cost to his Department of conducting driving licence examinations for private passenger cars in the latest period for which he has complete information available.
§ Mr. PeytonThe cost of conducting driving tests for drivers of private cars is not distinguished from the cost of conducting other non-vocational driving tests and could not be so distinguished without unjustified time and effort. Costs of driving tests as a whole are met by the fees.
§ Mr. Ian Lloydasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will publish a table showing, for each main driving licence testing area in Hampshire, the number and percentage of those under the age of 20 years at the time of their test for a licence to drive a private motor car who have been failed more than twice in the year from 1st May, 1971, to 30th April, 1972, inclusive.
§ Mr. PeytonI regret that this information is not available.
§ Mr. Ian Lloydasked the Secretary of State for the Environment, what steps he has taken to ensure that the standards applied to candidates for private motor car driving licence under the age of 20 years are not allowed to become excessively rigorous.
§ Mr. PeytonThe law makes no distinction between the standards applied to drivers of different ages.
§ Mr. Ian Lloydasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will institute an appeals procedure under which a candidate for a private motor car driving licence, who has been failed three times, may ask for a further test by another examiner without having to pay a £3.25 examination fee.
§ Mr. PeytonMy Department always tries to meet requests for subsequent tests to be conducted by a different examiner, but I see no grounds for widening the existing appeal rights in the way suggested.