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Our priority at this time, is to reduce driving test waiting times, while upholding road safety standards. More capacity means more forward bookings Some people assume that when that figure increases, it’s bad news for waiting times, as more people are waiting.

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In the spreadsheet you can download from that page, this number is called ‘forward bookings’. Since November 2022, the Department for Transport has been publishing this figure on a monthly basis to help us be more transparent as part of their faster indicators of transport activity. At the end of September 2023, there were 566,245 driving tests booked within the following 24 weeks. Forward bookingsĪs you’d expect, we also track the total number of bookings. As at 16 October 2023, that had increased to 11.5%. We also measure and track the percentage of all the appointments in the booking service within the next 24 weeks that are still available to book.įor example, at 24 April 2023, 5.9% of tests within the next 24 weeks were still available to book. Other measures of driving test availability

104 test centres with a waiting time of 24 weeks (42.8% of all test centres).

103 test centres with a waiting time between 10 and 23 weeks (42.4% of all test centres).

36 test centres with a waiting time up to 9 weeks (14.8% of all test centres).

We track the number of driving test centres that have waiting times in different bands.įor example, as at 16 October 2023 we had: Tracking waiting times across the country But they should give you a better insight into how driving test waiting times work. Now these are quite simple examples, and in reality it's not quite as simple as that, as things are constantly changing.

21 or more appointments are still available to book (week 5 onwards)Īs you can see, there are now only 5 weeks until 21 or more appointments are still available.

18 or more appointments are still available to book (weeks 1 to 4).

The waiting time is now the first week from now where either:

a 210 appointment capacity each week from week 5 onwards.

a 175 appointment capacity each week for weeks 1 to 4.

That driving examiner will do 35 tests a week when they join. Let's take that same example from before, and now add another driving examiner from week 5 onwards. For example, if a driving examiner is going to transfer to another test centre in 4 weeks’ time, appointments with them are added. We also add tests as and when they become available.

Each week, we add a new week’s worth of tests. The booking window for driving tests is a rolling 24 weeks.

So the waiting time here is 9 weeks.īut you can see that there are still 68 appointments available in the weeks before then – so many people would not be waiting 9 weeks, and some would only need to wait 2 weeks. In this example you can see that it's 9 weeks until 18 or more appointments are still available. Percentage of tests still available to book If we have a test centre where there are 175 tests available each week, the waiting time is the first week when 18 or more appointments are still available to book. The figure we report is how long it is until at least 10% of the weekly appointments are still available to book.

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What the waiting time figure meansĪs at 16 October 2023, the current national average car driving test waiting time is 18.8 weeks.īut to be very clear, that does not mean that every learner driver in Great Britain is going to have to wait 18.8 weeks between booking and taking their test.Īs well as the national average, each driving test centre also has its own waiting time. In this blog post, I want to explain how we work out the driving test waiting time we report on, and how it’s just part of a range of measures we look at. We're often asked by learner drivers, driving instructors and the media for the latest driving test waiting time. They’ll do this until the end of March 2024 and it will create about 150,000 extra driving tests, helping to reduce driving test waiting times.

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In the last few weeks, we have asked all eligible managers and administrative staff back on the front line to carry out driving tests full time.

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With many learner drivers waiting longer than we'd like to take a driving test, there's obviously a lot of interest in driving test waiting times and what we are doing to reduce them.

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