Driving Tests: Standards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2025 to Question 78713 on Driving Tests: Waiting Lists, what the national average car driving test waiting time was in weeks in October 2025.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
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. Those test centres are Bletchley, Goodmayes, Pinner and Wanstead.
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