The Treasury is to sack all its economists and will replace them with staff from the agency that runs driving tests (the DVSA).
While Treasury officials have watched prices increase by 57% since 2009, the cost of a driving test has remained unchanged since then at £62. This must mean that the driving test folk have found massive cost savings to avoid raising prices. If the cost of a driving test had risen at the same rate as inflation, it would now cost over £97.
Almost everything else that is priced by the government has gone up – passports, prescription charges, rail fares, car tax, fuel duty, stamps – up, up, and UP!
Treasury ministers will task the driving test examiners to work their magic, and tell other government departments how to keep costs DOWN, while still delivering all the services the public expect. Let’s hope they don’t ask the economy to make an emergency stop!
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