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Road Safety Bill [HL]

I can help my noble friend. To be able to give paid instruction, you have to be registered with the Driving Standards Agency and be an approved driving instructor. The Bill means that training organisations will now have to be registered as well. I believe that the Minister’s amendment will mean that students will be able to see the pass rate of an individual examiner or an individual school. What happens if the instructor knows that the candidate is not ready for his driving test? I have had that experience several times in HGV driver training, where the candidate insists on going for a test and I know that he should fail and of course he does fail. If we were measuring my candidates’ success rate at passing driving tests my pass rate would be adversely affected by someone trying to take the test when they were not ready for it. Perhaps the Minister could help me on those two points.