Driving Licences: Applications
The question
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.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
The table below shows the average number of working days taken to process driving licence applications made both online and not online
from January 2026 to date for both group 1 (cars and motorcycle) and group 2 (lorry and bus) applications.
| Group 1 | Group 2 | ||
Date | Online Applications | Non-Online Applications | Online Applications | Non-Online Applications |
Jan-26 | 1.3 | 4.8 | 1.0 | 3.2 |
Feb-26 | 1.2 | 6.2 | 1.0 | 4.5 |
Mar-26 | 1.2 | 7.0 | 1.0 | 5.1 |
Apr-26 (to 14/04) | 1.2 | 7.3 | 1.0 | 6.4 |
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