Driving Tests: Gosport
(asked on 29th August 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of driving tests within (a) half an hour, (b) an hour and (c) two hours travel of the Gosport peninsula.
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA’s) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.
As of 1 September 2025, there were 640,907 car practical driving tests booked, and 30,339 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window.
The table below shows the current average waiting time and number of tests available at the driving test centres within up to two hours traveling distance from the Gosport peninsula.
Driving test centre (DTC) | Travelling distance from the Gosport peninsula | Average car practical driving test waiting time (August 24) | Booked tests (As of 01/09/2025) | Tests available in 24 week booking window (As of 01/09/2025) |
Lee On Solent | Within half an hour | 24 | 2029 | 92 |
Portsmouth | Within half an hour | 24 | 4801 | 202 |
Chichester | Within an hour | 24 | 1556 | 60 |
Southampton (Maybush) | Within an hour | 24 | 3327 | 205 |
Winchester | Within an hour | 24 | 1270 | 51 |
Basingstoke | Within two hours | 11.5 | 1764 | 152 |
Burgess Hill | Within two hours | 24 | 3641 | 183 |
Crawley | Within two hours | 24 | 3905 | 211 |
Dorchester | Within two hours | 24 | 1103 | 83 |
Farnborough | Within two hours | 24 | 3188 | 163 |
Greenham | Within two hours | 24 | 807 | 30 |
Guildford | Within two hours | 15.3 | 777 | 28 |
Newport (Isle of Wight) | Within two hours | 24 | 1346 | 109 |
Oxford (Cowley) | Within two hours | 24 | 1324 | 66 |
Poole | Within two hours | 24 | 3380 | 234 |
Reading | Within two hours | 24 | 1918 | 49 |
Salisbury | Within two hours | 24 | 1882 | 114 |
Swindon | Within two hours | 24 | 4247 | 248 |
Trowbridge | Within two hours | 5.3 (Outstation) | 543 | 15 |
Worthing | Within two hours | 24 | 1598 | 82 |