Improving car driving test booking rules

From:: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Published: 28 May 2025
Last updated: 12 November 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Detail of outcome

We received 102,224 responses to the consultation.

On 12 November 2025, the Secretary of State for Transport, Heidi Alexander announced the outcome of the consultation to improve car driving test booking rules. They are:

only learner drivers will be able to book and manage car driving tests
learner drivers will be limited to making up to 2 changes to their test in total (for example, one change (date or location) and one swap)
tests will only be able to be moved to driving test centres within a certain geographical area of the original booking

These changes will be introduced in spring 2026. 

We will publish the full outcome with details on how the changes will be implemented and when as soon as possible.

Original consultation

Summary

Options to improve car driving test booking rules to make the system fairer and prevent people from reselling tests.

This consultation ran from
midday on 28 May 2025 to 11:59pm on 23 July 2025

Consultation description

This consultation is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg).

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) wants your views on potential changes to how driving tests can be booked and managed. We’re looking at 2 main areas:

who should be allowed to book and manage driving tests
should we limit or remove the ability to change test centres and swap tests between different learners

These changes aim to make the system fairer and stop people being charged excessive fees for booking tests.

Last updated 12 November 2025 show all updates