Provide driving tests for your employees

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Apply to provide driving tests

You must email the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) to get permission to provide driving tests.

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
delegated.testing@dvsa.gov.uk

You must include information about your organisation, the tests you want to provide, and the people you want to appoint as delegated driving examiners.

Your organisation

You’ll need to include:

  • the full name of the organisation
  • the registered address or headquarters address (if you’re not a registered company)
  • a copy of your certificate of incorporation if you’re a registered company
  • a copy of your operator licence (if you have one)
  • the name, position and contact details of the main contact in your organisation for driving tests
  • confirmation that you, as the person submitting the application, is an approved signatory for the purposes of the application

The tests you want to provide

You’ll need to include:

  • details of the locations at which testing would take place
  • the categories of tests you want to provide, for example, ‘category D - bus’
  • the type of tests you want to provide, for example, licence acquisition theory test, licence acquisition practical test and so on
  • details of where the records about the tests would be stored
  • an estimate of the minimum number of tests you’ll provide in the 12 months following your approval

The people you want to appoint as examiners

You’ll need to include the full names and driving licence numbers of the people you want to appoint as delegated driving examiners.

When DVSA gets your application

DVSA will tell you its decision about your application within 10 working days.

You’ll also get information about:

  • the qualifying process 
  • the detailed rules about providing theory and practical driving tests 
  • the detailed rules about recording tests that you provide
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