Driving Licences: Older People

(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate has she made of the average time taken to process an application for an over 70s driving licence.


Answered by
Justin Madders Portrait
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 8th September 2026

The information requested is not readily available and can only be extracted at disproportionate cost. To extract this information would require a manual interrogation of each driving licence renewal application to determine if the applicant was aged 70 or over.

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