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Driving Licences: Standards

Asked by Joe RobertsonConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 5 January 2026UIN 100728

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average processing time was for driving licence applications in December 2025.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

The tables below show the average number of working days taken to process driving licence applications made both online and not online for December 2025 up to 16 December for both group 1 (cars and motorcycle) and group 2 (lorry and bus) licences.

Group 1

Group 2

Date

Online applications

Non- online applications

Online applications

Non-online applications

Dec-25

1.31

3.42

1.00

2.72

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