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Failure to repair driving take a look at backlog as common ready time rises 20% in 2024


Measures to sort out driving take a look at ready instances are failing, says the AA Driving College, as new information reveals they’re rising each month.

Freedom of data information from the DVSA, accessed by the AA Driving College, reveals the common ready time for a driving take a look at at the beginning of February was 14.8 weeks. It has risen incrementally in every interim month since to 17.8 weeks at the beginning of Might – a rise of 20 per cent.

The information additionally reveals a 33% rise within the variety of take a look at centres with common ready instances of greater than 5 months, rising from 94 at the beginning of February to 125 at the beginning of Might.

General, at the beginning of Might, the overwhelming majority of take a look at centres (93%) had common ready instances in extra of the pre-pandemic common of six weeks.

Half (51%) of take a look at centres have seen common ready instances improve this yr; solely a fifth (20%) have seen an enchancment.

Decreasing the driving take a look at backlog and enhancing ready instances for learners is a key precedence in The AA’s Motoring Manifesto – which outlines important transport priorities to all political events forward of the final election in July.

Camilla Benitz, Managing Director AA Driving College, stated: “Sufficient is sufficient. The extra take a look at slots the DVSA added to the system between October and March have made no distinction to the common ready time learners up and down the nation are going through.

“In truth, learners confronted longer common ready instances in Might than they did in February.

“Extra must be accomplished to deal with this problem. Having the ability to drive isn’t a luxurious – for many individuals it’s an absolute necessity to get them to work, training and employment.

“We have to see a renewed dedication from the DVSA to make extra driving take a look at slots out there, but in addition to recruiting and retaining extra examiners so extra learner take a look at slots don’t come on the expense of different important DVSA companies, comparable to driving teacher coaching exams, which we’ve got seen falling availability of not too long ago.”

Regional information

71 take a look at centres had common waits of 24 weeks (the utmost the system will enable to be recorded) on each February fifth and Might sixth:

Ashford (Kent) Isleworth (Fleming Method)
Aylesbury Lochgilphead
Ballater Loughborough
Banbury Loughton (London)
Barking (Tanner Avenue) Mill Hill (London)
Basildon Morden (London)
Belvedere (London) Northampton
Bishops Stortford Nottingham (Colwick)
Bletchley Nuneaton
Bristol (Avonmouth) Oban
Bristol (Kingswood) Orkney
Bromley (London) Oxford (Cowley)
Buckie Penzance
Chelmsford (Hanbury Street) Pinner (London)
Cheltenham Studying
Chertsey (London) Redhill Aerodrome
Chingford (London) Rugby
Chippenham Slough (London)
Clacton-on-Sea Southall (London)
Coventry Southampton (Maybush)
Culham LGV Southend-on-Sea
Dunoon Stevenage
Eastbourne Swindon
Enfield (Brancroft Method) Swindon LGV
Farnborough Taunton
Folkestone Tilbury
Gillingham Tolworth (London)
Gloucester Tunbridge Wells
Goodmayes (London) Uxbridge (London)
Greenford (Horsenden Lane) Wanstead (London)
Guildford Warwick (Wedgenock Home)
Hastings (Ore) Watford
Hendon (London) West Wickham (London)
Hinckley Winchester
Islay Island Wooden Inexperienced (London)
  Yeading (London)

Take a look at centres which elevated their common ready time between February and Might to 24 weeks embrace: Barnet (London), Basingstoke, Dorchester, Greenham, Hornchurch (London), Inveraray, Ipswich, Kettering, Maidstone, Newport (Isle of Wight), Nottingham (Chilwell), Plymouth and Whitby.



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