AQW 8230/11-15 Mr Samuel Gardiner MBE Ulster Unionist Party Upper Bann
Tabled Date: 14/02/2012 Answered On Date: 14/03/2012 Priority Written: No
Question: To ask the Minister of the Environment how many drivers have passed the Advanced Driving Test in each of the last three years; and how this figure, as a percentage, compares with other UK regions.
Answer:
The Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA) carries out statutory driving tests in Northern Ireland on behalf of the Department under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996. Advanced driving tests both in NI and in Britain are carried out by private organisations. The main providers are the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA), and they have provided the tabulated statistics below for advanced driving tests. Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) Category | 2008-2009 | 2009-2010 | 2010-2011 | | Tests | Pass Rate | No of Passes | Tests | Pass Rate | No of Passes | Tests | Pass Rate | No of Passes | NI | Car | 201 | 98% | 199 | 114 | 96% | 109 | 81 | 98% | 79 | Motorcycle | 16 | 88% | 14 | 32 | 97% | 31 | 34 | 100% | 34 | Britain | Car | 8376 | 92% | 7706 | 4314 | 89% | 3839 | 3004 | 86% | 2583 | Motorcycle | 2027 | 87% | 1763 | 1874 | 86% | 1612 | 1785 | 86% | 1535 |
Source: Institute of Advanced Motorists (not Official Statistics) Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Category | 2008-2009 | 2009-2010 | 2010-2011 | | Tests | Pass Rate | No of Passes | Tests | Pass Rate | No of Passes | Tests | Pass Rate | No of Passes | NI | Car | 101 | 100% | 101 | 88 | 100% | 88 | 70 | 100% | 70 | Motorcycle | 8 | 100% | 8 | 19 | 100% | 19 | 15 | 100% | 15 | England | Car | 1850 | 98.7% | 1826 | 1844 | 98.5% | 1816 | 2097 | 99% | 2076 | Motorcycle | 433 | 98.6% | 427 | 441 | 99% | 437 | 572 | 99% | 566 | Scotland | Car | 144 | 100% | 144 | 126 | 99.2% | 125 | 170 | 99.4% | 169 | Motorcycle | 26 | 100% | 26 | 37 | 100% | 37 | 20 | 100% | 20 | Wales | Car | 74 | 100% | 74 | 54 | 98.2% | 53 | 73 | 100% | 73 | Motorcycle | 28 | 100% | 28 | 50 | 100% | 50 | 53 | 94.3% | 50 |
Source: Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (not Official Statistics) The statistics provided by the IAM and RoSPA indicate that over the three years in question 20,484 drivers passed the advanced driving test in Britain compared with 646 in NI while for motorcyclists 6,551 riders passed the advanced test in Britain and 121 in NI. The numbers of advanced tests taken with the IAM and RoSPA in this period totalled, for cars, 22,126 in Britain and 655 in NI, and, for motorcycles, 7,346 in Britain and 124 in NI. For car tests, the figures for both Britain and NI represented 0.4% of the numbers of ordinary practical driving tests taken by motorists in the same period, while advanced motorcycle tests represented 3.3% of the number of ordinary motorcycle tests taken in Britain and 2.1% of the number taken in NI.
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