Question follow-through · 93125

Driving Tests: Standards

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

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 20 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 24 Nov 2025
Answer: 28 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

20 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the national average car driving test waiting time is in weeks in October 2025.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2025
Answer published
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. Th...

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