QUESTION 9 TRANSPORT
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aviation sector that this government has created is going to support jobs, local businesses and skills that the planned expansion
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Stafford look ahead.Number nine, Mr Speaker.
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Minister.
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million driving licences, processed over 100 million individual customer transactions and issued 18.5 million vehicle registrations.
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We recognise that improvement is needed on the time taken to process medical driving licence applications and plans are in place to address this.
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I am grateful to the Minister for his answer.I've got an increasing number of constituents who are coming to me with
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problems getting their license. One such
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was a lady who had dementia passed all the tests andhad months and months of delays trying to get her license.
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In this case, I have diabetes patients
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I have epilepsy constituents who are all
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What is the Minister doing to make sure
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further information some of the individual issues that he has raised. We are taking steps to
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introducing new digital casework system, recruiting additional staff, there are automation of routine processesThings are moving in the right directions, Mr Speaker. In 2022-23, the average number of working days to complete a medical licensing application was 89. This time last year, it was
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It's now down to 66. We want to get this down to 45 by March of next year, and I can assure the hon. Gentleman that we will do everything in our power to dobefore that happens. Greg Smith Shadow Minister.
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. I'm not certain the Minister is right when he says the DVLA is getting better. Their operating surplus is forecast to collapse by 50
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DVLA is spending £96 million a year on postage and printing despite a plan tomove 85% of transactions online. The DVLA is committed to delivering £5 million in efficiency savings.
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Yes, expenditure is forecast to increase by 59 million
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Yeah, and as my hon. Friend said, the position on medical licensing is just outof control, particularly when a written parliamentary question recently revealed that the average time for a bus and lorry driver to get a decision is still an
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A very detailed plan on
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how his department is going to get a grip on what can only be described right now as a failing government agency.
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