Question 9652 — young people

Summary

Mrs. Pascale Martin draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, responsible for transport, to the new measures concerning the driving license announced by the Prime Minister. On Wednesday June 21, 2023, Ms. Elisabeth Borne declared that she wanted to lower the minimum age of a driving license to 17 years and extend financial aid to students in vocational high schools, of amount of 500 euros, already allocated to apprentices. The objective of this measure is to facilitate access to mobility for young people living in rural areas, to enable them to work or complete an internship. The problem of access to mobility for young people is real: according to a study by the Montaigne Institute, for 53% of 18-26 year olds, the absence of a driving license is an obstacle to finding a job. And 28% of people in professional integration abandon their job or training for reasons of mobility. These figures illustrate a real need to introduce free driving licenses. With the Prime Minister's announcements, we are far from it. Indeed, 500 euros is far from enough, given that the cost of a driving license averages 2,000 euros. This measure will therefore only benefit young people whose parents have the means to finance this training, even though the obstacle to mobility lies above all in the cost of the diploma and not in the minimum age of access to it. In addition, certain young people will remain excluded from this system if they are not registered in apprenticeship or vocational high school. She therefore asks him when the Government will decide to implement a major public policy for mobility, by establishing free driving licenses and developing the public transport network, in order to ensure equal access to employment and training for young citizens; “measures” like those that the Government has just announced will never resolve the social and territorial divide suffered by young people living in landlocked territories.

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