Driving Tests: Standards

(asked on 12th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of people in (a) Angus and (b) the UK awaiting a practical driving test; and of those how many are awaiting those tests at the Abroath remote testing centre.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 17th May 2022

As of 13 May 2022:

  • 135 people had a practical car driving test booked in Angus.
  • 119,865 people had a practical car driving test booked in the UK.
  • 60 people had a practical car driving test booked at Arbroath test centre.

The waiting time for a practical car test at Arbroath is five weeks.

In 2019, 11 practical car driving tests were carried out, on average, per week, at Arbroath. 12 practical driving tests were carried out, on average, per week, at Arbroath between 1 January and 1 May 2022.

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