HC Deb 18 November 1997 vol 301 cc127-8W
44. Mr. Keith Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what response he has made to the European Parliament Transport Committee's recommendation that driving tests be retaken every five years.[14888]

Dr. Strang

There has been no such recommendation. The Transport and Tourism Committee of the European Parliament are currently reviewing road safety policy, but have not yet reported. In the course of their deliberations, one of the members put forward the idea of periodic re-testing of drivers, but it has not been supported by the Committee as a whole, nor by any of the European Institutions.