The Covid-19 pandemic saw waiting times at driving test centres across Great Britain shoot up
The DVSA does not record the exact length of time for waits over 24 weeks, so the true figure could be higher. As of the end of March, more than 500,000 people were waiting for a test across Britain – seven times the 70,000 waiting in March 2020, and up from 372,000 last year. The number of people waiting by test centre was not available.
Across Britain, 123 driving test centres had waits of at least six months as of March – 38 per cent of the country's 324 testing sites.Meanwhile, just 43 sites had waiting times of less than a month. The DVSA said that it had since cut down waiting times, with 23 per cent of test centres now having a wait of 24 weeks, and a further 23 per cent within the target of six weeks as of November – although it could not provide figures on which centres had improved.
Separate analysis by the RAC shows that more than 50,000 tests in the 12 months to March were taken by people who had already failed their test five times or more. It said this may be driving up the backlog, as inexperienced learners take any test available for fear of missing out on a slot later on.
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