Driving Tests: Waiting Lists

(asked on 27th June 2022) - View Source
Questioner
John Lamont Portrait
John Lamont
(Conservative - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will make an estimate of (a) the number of people waiting for and (b) the average waiting time to take a category B driving test at (a) Duns, (b) Hawick, (c) Galashiels, (d) Kelso, (e) Peebles and (f) Berwick-upon-Tweed driving test centres.

Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 5th July 2022

The table below shows the number of car (category B) tests that are booked at the following driving test centres (DTC).

Duns DTC

Hawick DTC

Galashiels DTC

Kelso DTC

Peebles DTC

Berwick Upon Tweed DTC

Number of car (category B) tests booked

40

118

499

91

100

212

Average waiting time in weeks for a car (category B) test

24

17

24

6

16

9

Driving test centre type

Remote

Remote

Permanent

Remote

Remote

Remote

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