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Driving Tests

Asked by Joe RobertsonConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 23 February 2026UIN 112847

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, a) what the failure-to-attend rate for practical car driving tests was in each month since January 2024; and b) whether the Department has assessed the impact on failure-to-attend rates of the change introduced on 8 April 2025 to the minimum notice period for cancelling or changing a practical car driving test.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

The attached Excel spreadsheet shows failure-to-attends (FTA) as a percentage of the total number of bookings for each month since January 2024.

DVSA monitors failure to attend rates and consider potential causes of those rates changing, together with potential interventions to reduce such rates, on an ongoing basis.

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