Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
(asked on 11th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people waiting for a practical driving test.
This question was answered on 17th July 2023
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s recovery measures have created over 39,000 extra car practical driving test slots each month, and, since April 2021, over 1 million additional test slots.
As of 10 July 2023, there were 547,076 car practical driving tests booked, and 39,535 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window.
The average waiting time for a car practical driving test nationally (June 2023 average) is 18.4 weeks.
- England: 19 weeks
- Scotland: 16.7 weeks
- Wales: 14.5 weeks