Driving: Qualifications
(asked on 15th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average wait time was for each of the five tests which make up Driver Certificate of Professional Competence for bus drivers in each year from 2015 to date.
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency cannot separate the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence waiting times data between bus tests and large goods vehicle tests.
The table below shows the official waiting times for DVSA booked tests from the date of booking to appointment; it does not include tests booked by external assessors for the vocational manoeuvres test.
Driver CPC test element | Average waiting time 01.04.21 to 31.03.22 | Average waiting time 01.04.20 to 31.03.21 | Average waiting time 01.04.19 to 31.03.20 | Average waiting time 01.04.18 to 31.03.19 | Average waiting time 01.04.17 to 31.03.18 |
Theory test | No data available | No data available | No data available | 96.1% offered an appointment within 2 weeks | 96.8% offered an appointment within 2 weeks |
Case studies test | No data available | No data available | No data available | 96.1% offered an appointment within 2 weeks | 96.8% offered an appointment within 2 weeks |
Practical Driver CPC test | 5.4 weeks | 7.4 weeks | 1.5 weeks | Not recorded | Not recorded |
Vocational manoeuvres test | 3.4 weeks | No data available | No data available | No data available | No data available |
Vocational driving test | 5.4 weeks | 6.6 weeks | 3.0 weeks | 1.7 weeks | 1.6 weeks |
To note:
- Data is unavailable for the Theory test and Case Studies test between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2022 as the pandemic was a force majeure event under the terms of the outsourced contract at the time.
- Waiting time data for the Practical Driver CPC test is not held prior to 1 April 2019.
- Data for the Vocational manoeuvres test is only available from the financial year 2021/22 as this was when it was introduced.