Driving Licences: Health

(asked on 7th September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average processing time was for medical driving licence renewal applications in each month since June 2026.


Answered by
Justin Madders Portrait
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 14th September 2026

The table below shows the average number of working days taken to process medical driving licence applications for both group 1 (car and motorcycle) and group 2 (lorry and bus) in July and August. This includes all applications, including renewals.

Month

Group 1

Group 2

July

69.6

53.3

August

55.6

64.8

Data for June was set out in Question 17039 answered on 13 July 2026.

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