Question 11491 — exams, competitions and diplomas

Summary

Mr. Yannick Monnet questions the Minister of the Interior about the excessive delays in obtaining a driving license and the lack of staff among driving license and road safety inspectors. Objective reasons have led, in recent years, to a bottleneck in the process of obtaining a driving license: the abolition of national service, the reduction in weekly working hours, the demographic curve, the increase in 16% of registrations over the last five years, to which is added the lowering of the license age to 17 years since January 1, 2024. With the stagnation, at the same time, of the success rate (around 55%) and the number of inspectors, the waiting times for the driving license exam are increasing sharply and far exceed the 45-day deadline set by the 2015 law, known as the “Macron law”: this deadline has doubled between 2019 and 2025, going from 40 to 80 days on average. This average also hides strong disparities, with delays of 8 months sometimes observed in large cities and in Île-de-France. These long delays lead candidates, in order not to “lose control”, to take additional driving hours generally billed at 50 to 60 euros, thus mechanically increasing the already high cost of obtaining the driving license. to drive. Worse, for those who cannot afford it, there is a strong temptation to get behind the wheel with loved ones, completely illegally and in total contradiction with road safety requirements. In rural areas like Allier, where the mobility of young people is a daily imperative (notably when looking for and exercising a job), the problem is even more acute. It is generally accepted that a increasing the number of driving license inspectors by 10 to 15% would make it possible to deal with the situation; the unions are thus demanding the creation of 150 driving license and road safety inspectors and 20 driving license and road safety delegates. The corresponding cost is estimated at 8 million euros on the state budget, a paltry sum considering the problem it poses. would make it possible to resolve and which relates to road safety, youth and employment. The transfer to the private sphere of missions reserved for the public driving license service would be a major error: the privatization of the highway code examination has thus shown the danger of such a development, with massive fraud having resulted, for example, in the cancellation of 7,000 examinations in 2024 (on the basis of controls) and the closure of 83 approved centers. He also asks him if he plans to recruit these additional inspectors and delegates in order to resolve a situation that has become untenable in many departments.

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