Driving Tests: Waiting Lists

(asked on 10th October 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Richard Holden Portrait
Richard Holden
(Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time for a practical car driving test was in (a) each of the 12 months before 5 July 2024 and (b) each month since that date.

Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 20th October 2025

The table below shows the national average car driving test waiting time in weeks, for the months July 2023 to September 2025.

Month

National average car driving test waiting time in weeks

Jul-23

19.1

Aug-23

20.2

Sep-23

20.4

Oct-23

18.9

Nov-23

18.4

Dec-23

17.4

Jan-24

15.3

Feb-24

16.2

Mar-24

17.1

Apr-24

17.8

May-24

18.6

Jun-24

18.4

Jul-24

18.1

Aug-24

18.5

Sep-24

19

Oct-24

19.5

Nov-24

19.7

Dec-24

20.8

Jan-25

20.8

Feb-25

21.3

Mar-25

21.7

Apr-25

22.3

May-25

22.5

Jun-25

22.3

Jul-25

22.2

Aug-25

22.5

Sep-25

21.8

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