Driving Licences: Medical Examinations
(asked on 27th October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2026 to Question 34455 on Driving Licences, what the average number of days taken by the DVLA to make a licensing decision for Group 2 vocational driving licence applications where a medical condition required investigation was in each month from January 2021 to June 2024.
The table below shows the average number of working days to make a licensing decision for Group 2 (bus and lorry) vocational driving licence applications where a medical condition required investigation before a licence could be issued in each month from January 2021 to June 2024.
| Average number of days to make a licensing decision for Group 2 (bus and lorry) applications | |||
Month | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Jan | 66.7 | 78.9 | 60.7 | 50.6 |
Feb | 52.1 | 83.3 | 63.3 | 49.3 |
Mar | 54.4 | 86.3 | 57.5 | 48.9 |
Apr | 62.4 | 80.0 | 60.1 | 35.0 |
May | 61.6 | 79.8 | 55.1 | 34.1 |
June | 76.5 | 79.0 | 52.8 | 46.9 |
July | 77.6 | 70.9 | 49.1 |
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Aug | 63.7 | 70.4 | 55.3 |
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Sept | 76.2 | 65.1 | 52.8 |
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Oct | 72.1 | 64.1 | 51.0 |
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Nov | 71.6 | 57.2 | 50.0 |
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Dec | 71.8 | 60.6 | 49.6 |
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