On 16/02/2020 14:42, TMS320 wrote:

On 16/02/2020 13:00, JNugent wrote:
On 16/02/2020 12:45, TMS320 wrote:
On 16/02/2020 11:56, JNugent wrote:
On 15/02/2020 18:05, TMS320 wrote:

If an applicant answered the question "Can you meet the legal
eyesight standards for driving using glasses or corrective lenses if
needed?" with a "No", would the provisional licence be granted?

If a provisional licence is issued on wrong information, the
applicant would not be able to complete the driving test.

If he has been banned from driving in (say) Australia or Iraq, how
will that physically prevent him from taking, and even passing, a UK
test?

I was replying to the matter of eyesight.

That's easy. Just send a ringer along to take the test. Remember: the
test procedure relies upon the honesty of the applicant.

In any true/false procedure a false means that subsequent tests don't
need to be done. Letters need to be sent out either way so it's
difficult to see where cost is added.

You are assuming honest answers to questions where a truthful answer
will mean refusal.

Obviously. Cost comes from letting dishonesty succeed, not from turning
an application down. A doctor's note (barring the doctor also being
dishonest) would make it more difficult for the applicant to be dishonest.

A doctor's note saying what?

That the patient is fit and well?

The biggest "loophole" in interactions with the state is that it
relies upon honesty, probably too much.

"Have you done any paid work since you last signed as unemployed?"

"Er... no...".

That's partly why governments want to get rid of cash. And why our
government carries out surveillance.

I have no serious objection to such moves in principle.