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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Neil Lancefield

Driving test backlog ‘cannot get much worse’

Officials hope an increase in the number of tests being conducted will bring waiting times down (PA) - (PA Wire)

Learner drivers are being forced to wait more than five months to book a slot at four out of five test centres, new figures show.

Some 258 locations in Britain had the maximum possible waiting time of 24 weeks for a test as of May 5, which is 81% of all sites.

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