Driving Tests: Standards

(asked on 20th November 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the national average car driving test waiting time is in weeks in October 2025.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 28th November 2025

The national average waiting time for a car practical driving test in October 2025 was 21.9 weeks.

There were four test centres in total where the waiting time for a practical car driving test was 24 weeks for each month from July 2023 to October 2025. Those test centres are Bletchley, Goodmayes, Pinner and Wanstead.

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