Driving Licences: Applications
(asked on 6th January 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average processing time was for driving licence applications in December 2025.
This question was answered on 12th January 2026
The tables below show the average number of working days taken to process driving licence applications made both online and not online
in December 2025 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 |
Dec-25 | 1.31 | 3.42 | 1.00 | 2.72 |