Question follow-through · 97333
Motor Vehicles: Testing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time was for MOT appointments in (a) November 2025 and (b) each month since July 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time was for MOT appointments in (a) November 2025 and (b) each month since July 2024.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2025
Answer published
Neither the Department for Transport nor the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), which administers the MOT scheme, collects or holds data on waiting times for MOT appointments. The MOT test is delivered by a network of around 23,000 privately oper...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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