Driving Tests

(asked on 14th April 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, a) what the failure-to-attend rate for practical car driving tests was in each month since January 2026 up to and including the most recent month for which figures are available.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 20th April 2026

The table below shows failure-to-attends (FTA) as a percentage of the total number of bookings for each month since January 2026.

Month

% FTA

February

3

March

3

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency monitors failure to attend rates and consider potential causes of those rates changing, together with potential interventions to reduce such rates, on an ongoing basis.

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