Question follow-through · 100436
Driving Tests: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the national average waiting time in weeks was for a practical car driving test in (a) November 2025 and (b) October 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the national average waiting time in weeks was for a practical car driving test in (a) November 2025 and (b) October 2025.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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22 Dec 2025
Answer published
The national average waiting time for a car practical driving test in November 2025 was 22 weeks. For the national average waiting time in October 2025, I refer the hon Member to the answers I gave on 28 November and 8 December, to Questions 93246 and 96...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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