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Statistics on the number and pass rates of driving and riding practical tests conducted in Great Britain for the period January to March 2022, and also statistics on driving instructors.

In January to March 2022:

• 425,900 car practical tests were conducted
• the car practical test pass rate was 47.1%

Compared with January to March 2020, this was:

• an increase of 14% for car practical tests

The publication of driver and rider theory test data, conducted from September 2021 onwards, and the annual edition of driver and rider testing and instructor statistics is being postponed while the Department for Transport (DfT) carry out enhanced quality assurance checks on the theory data.

Following the introduction of a new system for managing their theory test data, in September 2021, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) experienced a number of problems migrating data from the old to the new system and validating and collating the data which prevented its delivery to DfT. This resulted in the currently announced delays in publishing the theory test relating to 2021 onwards on DfTs website.

DVSA have now tackled these issues and recommenced the supply of theory test data to DfT, including the outstanding period and DfT are currently undertaking validation and quality assurance testing of this. Once these checks have passed, we will seek to publish the outstanding statistics at the first available opportunity alongside the planned annual statistical release and we will announce this date on theforthcoming statistics sectionof the DfT website.

Until then, to minimise the impact of these delays on the unaffected practical test data, DfT has taken the decision to publish the latest 3 months of data for practical tests and for driving instructors (covering January to March 2022) in a quarterly release format in place of the annual release on the 11 August 2022.

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