We recognise the improvements that the Department and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency have made to the learning and testing process in recent years. However, we are concerned that the current learning process does not fully equip learner drivers with sufficient experience of driving a vehicle in a range of different situations. We therefore welcome the Department’s commitment to pilot a system of “modular learning” with compulsory driver training in different conditions, due to start late...

We recognise the improvements that the Department and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency have made to the learning and testing process in recent years. However, we are concerned that the current learning process does not fully equip learner drivers with sufficient experience of driving a vehicle in a range of different situations. We therefore welcome the Department’s commitment to pilot a system of “modular learning” with compulsory driver training in different conditions, due to start later in 2021 should restrictions in place for the coronavirus pandemic be eased. Type: conclusion | Number: 9 | Paragraph: 84 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: The Driving Instructors Association are being grant funded to deliver the Modular Learning project (with the support of an independent advisory group) for the Department. The project will explore if a consistently delivered, nationally adopted modular ‘learning to drive’ syllabus (delivered face to