Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the monthly average waiting time for a car practical driving test was at each (a) driving test centre and (b) zone in each month since April 2015.

The answers to Questions 6462 on 9 October 2024, 89574 on 11 November 2025 and 122397 on 24 March 2026, provide data covering April 2015 to February 2026.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) publishes monthly practical driving test waiting time data on GOV.UK. Information on average waiting times since January 2019 is available in table DRT121G, car driving test waiting times and availability by country and region, and information on waiting times at individual driving test centres is available in table DRT122F.

Following a restructure of DVSA’s operational leadership teams, the former internal zones were replaced by new internal regions with different geographical boundaries. DVSA therefore cannot provide current waiting-time data on a directly comparable basis using the former zones. These internal regions are separate from the geographic regions DVSA uses for waiting time data it publishes on GOV.UK.