Question follow-through · 83016
Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the validity of the Driving Theory Test certificate, in the context of long waiting times for practical driving tests.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Driving Licences: Health · 16 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the validity of the Driving Theory Test certificate, in the context of long waiting times for practical driving tests.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2025
Answer published
The validity period of the theory test certificate is two years. The cost of taking a theory test is £23.00. It is not possible to estimate the total sums paid by learner drivers for resitting their theory test because they have been unable to access a pr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Driving Licences: Health
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Driving Tests
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