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A quick Google suggests the salary is around £30,000, which would put it above the living wage. It's not an amazing salary, but let's say that got bumped to £40,000 and then you'd need to hire probably at least 10x the number of examiners to be able to cope with the demand, then suddenly that gets very expensive.
There'd be arguments about whether it's actually financially worth it and whether there's even though labour supply to achieve the number of examiners required.
Cars are expensive by their nature. Pass the costs onto the drivers.
So, you want to discourage people from taking tests, which will result in: fewer people driving and, of those who do drive, more of them driving without a license? How do you plan on replacing the transport for those people who decide they aren't going to drive - will that be improving public transport? How would that happen?
Yes, don't need to read any further.
Making it harder for poorer working people to get to work. This would be yet another cost that people have to face. Those that can't afford to re-take it but need their car to get to work would end up criminalised.
Poor people are less likely to drive because they can't afford to get a car. I never learnt because I didn't have £1000s to get insured, didn't even bother looking at the other costs involved because the numbers were so far beyond anything I could even consider.
Was only in my late 20s that I even replaced the bike from my teens, by the time I replaced it most of the gears didn't work anymore. Sure, some poor people do drive, but far more rich people do. Just looking at stats for household car ownership by area clearly shows it, I live in a large town and the rich side of town is >95% vehicle ownership and around 20% have 3 or more. My street is 27% of households have no vehicles, the most deprived areas of town are majority of households don't own a vehicle.
I repeated this with every town I have ever lived in and while the numbers vary the same trends apply every time.
People have to pay for their tests, so the cost would come out of that. Less than +25% fee presumably given that the other costs like the car won't be changing to pay them more.