Question follow-through · 127307
Driving Licences: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average processing time was for driving licence applications in each month since December 2025 up to and including the most recent month for which figures are available.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 14 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 24 Apr 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average processing time was for driving licence applications in each month since December 2025 up to and including the most recent month for which figures are available.
20 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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24 Apr 2026
Answer published
The table below shows the average number of working days taken to process driving licence applications made both online and not onlinefrom January 2026 to date for both group 1 (cars and motorcycle) and group 2 (lorry and bus) applications. Group 1Group ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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