Trudy Harrison corrected a written answer on Driving Licences: Medical Examinations

22 October 2021 · Commons written answer · Department for Transport

Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) asked written question 42064 on 3 September 2021. Rachel Maclean answered on 8 September 2021 for the Department for Transport, and Trudy Harrison corrected the answer on 22 October 2021. The corrected text adds the figure 35,040, which the original did not give. Altogether 50 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many blood samples were requested by DVLA as part of a fitness to drive medical in each of the last five years.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
The number of blood tests requested by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency as part of a medical fitness to drive investigation in the last five years is shown in the table below: Year \| 2015/16 \| 2016/17 \| 2017/18 \| 2018/19 \| 2020/21 Total requests \| 35,524 \| 36,792 \| 36,125 \| 43,332 \| 34,216 \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| Information on the number of blood tests that needed to be retaken or the reason why is not readily available. Retrieving this information would require the interrogation of each individual case to identify the reason for which the blood test needed to be re-taken.	The number of blood tests requested by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency as part of a medical fitness to drive investigation in the last five years is shown in the table below: \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| Year \| 2015/16 \| 2016/17 \| 2017/18 \| 2018/19 \| 2019/20 \| 2020/21 Total requests \| 35,524 \| 36,792 \| 35,040 \| 36,125 \| 43,332 \| 34,216 Information on the number of blood tests that needed to be retaken or the reason why is not readily available. Retrieving this information would require the interrogation of each individual case to identify the reason for which the blood test needed to be re-taken.

Original

Corrected

The number of blood tests requested by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency as part of a medical fitness to drive investigation in the last five years is shown in the table below:
Year
| 2015/16
| 2016/17
| 2017/18
| 2018/19
| 2020/21
Total requests
| 35,524
| 36,792
| 36,125
| 43,332
| 34,216
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Information on the number of blood tests that needed to be retaken or the reason why is not readily available. Retrieving this information would require the interrogation of each individual case to identify the reason for which the blood test needed to be re-taken.

The number of blood tests requested by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency as part of a medical fitness to drive investigation in the last five years is shown in the table below:
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Year
| 2015/16
| 2016/17
| 2017/18
| 2018/19
| 2019/20
| 2020/21
Total requests
| 35,524
| 36,792
| 35,040
| 36,125
| 43,332
| 34,216
Information on the number of blood tests that needed to be retaken or the reason why is not readily available. Retrieving this information would require the interrogation of each individual case to identify the reason for which the blood test needed to be re-taken.

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