Question 15785 — exams, competitions and diplomas

Summary

Mr. Antoine Valentin draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the serious difficulties that driving schools are encountering in the face of the reduction in the capacity to organize the practical driving license test. The reduction in the number of candidate presentation dates, combined with the entry into force, on January 1, 2024, of the reform lowering the legal age of first presentation for this exam from eighteen to seventeen years, has caused a structural imbalance between the supply of available places and a sharply increasing demand. If this reform responded to a legitimate objective of emancipation and mobility of young people, it took place in a context where the institutional capacities for organizing the exam were already insufficient to absorb the volume of candidates under satisfactory conditions. Two years after its entry into force, the effects of This reform on the examination system remains deeply worrying. In 2025, more than ninety departments will exceed the maximum regulatory period of forty-five days between two consecutive presentations for the practical test, provided for in article L. 221-5 of the Highway Code. The national median time is now around eighty-five days, with peaks reaching two to three months in urban areas. the most tense and up to six to nine months in certain rural or peri-urban areas. This situation results above all from a structural and chronic deficit of driving license and road safety inspectors (IPCSR): France today has only around 1,200 active agents compared to a demand exceeding 1.5 million annual presentations for the practical test of the B license alone. Driving schools, placed in on the front line of this crisis, are bearing the economic and organizational consequences with increasing acuteness. Each additional month of delay forces the establishment to plan additional training hours and therefore exposes the driving school to the risk of discouraged candidates resigning. The profession expressed its exasperation during a national mobilization on September 29, 2025. If the Government has already made several efforts, recruitment of at least 103 IPCSR in 2025 through two exceptional competition sessions, opening of 140,670 additional examination slots for the year and launch of a competition for 80 new inspectors for 2026, professional organizations argue that these provisions remain far below real needs and that the recruitments agreed will only reach their full operational effect at the end of a training period of almost eighteen months. The MP therefore wishes to question the Minister on the following five points: what was the number of presentations of candidates for the practical driving license test in Haute-Savoie for the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, as well as for the first quarter of the year 2026? What is the average time to obtain a invitation to the practical examination observed in 2026, both nationally and at the level of the Haute-Savoie department? What measures have already been implemented, or are currently being considered, to remedy the reduction in the number of available test places and to mitigate the effects on candidates and driving education establishments? How does the Government intend to deal with the structural increase in demand resulting from the lowering of the legal age of presentation to seventeen years? Is the use of overtime for driving license inspectors considered, in order to increase the number of examination sessions organized? He wishes to obtain details on this subject.

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