Driving and motorcycle tests
Tests and training for vehicles, including motorcycles, lorries, cars and buses.
Services
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Book your driving test
Book your official DVSA practical driving test for cars from £62, or other types of practical driving tests, including motorcycle and driving instructor tests
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Change your driving test appointment
Find an earlier practical driving test, move it to a later date, or change the test centre you take it at.
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Book your theory test
Book your official DVSA car or motorcycle theory test for £23, or other lorry, bus and Driver CPC theory tests.
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Take a practice theory test
Take free official practice theory tests from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) for cars, motorcycles, lorries and buses
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Book and manage driving and riding tests for your pupils
Book driving and motorcycle tests for your pupils, check details, change, swap or cancel tests, and manage your availability for car driving tests.
Guidance and regulation
- The Highway Code
- 'Show me, tell me' questions: car driving test
- Book and manage your driving test: problems accessing the service
- New rules for towing a trailer with a car from 16 December 2021
- How to get a motorcycle licence
News and communications
- Learner drivers urged to be test-ready as pass rate falls
- Huge increase in lorry driving tests following government action
- Draft legislation: The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021
- The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2022: draft legislation
- Motor vehicle driving licences: HGV driver shortage
Research and statistics
- DfI Driver Vehicle Operator & Enforce Stats 22-23-Q4: 1st Release
- DVA Monthly Tests Conducted Statistics: April 2023
- Developing faster indicators of transport activity
- DVA Monthly Tests Conducted Statistics: March 2023
- Car theory test data by test centre
Policy papers and consultations
- Driving tests: improving availability and processes
- Driving licensing review - call for evidence on opportunities for changes to the driver licensing regime
- Changes to HGV and bus driving tests and allowing car drivers to tow a trailer without an extra test
- Changing the cost of DVSA services for 2021 to 2022
- Simplifying driving licence upgrade and motorcycle test rules
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency framework agreement
- Module 2 A1 motorcycle tests broken down by gender and age since 1997
- Practical driving tests conducted over last 5 years failed because of poor eyesight
- Car driving tests passed with 0 faults both nationally and in Nottingham
- New drivers who pass D1 minibus practical test by gender for 2010 to 2013