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Some driving examiners who are members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union are planning to take strike action at times during June.

The strike action is part of national industrial action by the?PCS?union over pay, pensions, jobs and redundancy terms.?

What types of tests might be affected?

The strike action might affect:?

• car driving tests?
• motorcycle tests?
• lorry, bus, coach and minibus driving tests (these are known as vocational tests)?
• tractor or specialist vehicle driving tests?
• approved driving instructor (ADI) part 2 (driving ability) or part 3 (instructional ability) tests?
• ADI?standards checks?
• moped and motorcycle compulsory basic training (CBT) checks - but not the training courses themselves? ? The strike action will not affect theory tests.?

Driving tests with private test providers?

Your test will not be affected by the strike action if youre taking it with a private test provider.

This includes some:?

• Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) part 3a (off-road exercise) tests?
• Driver?CPC?part 4 (practical demonstration) tests?

When the strikes will be held

The strikes will affect driving test centres in different parts of Great Britain at different times.

Check which driving test centres are affected?

The?PCS union has told?DVSA?the strike action will affect driving examiners?? employed at the driving test centres listed on this page.?

Tests might also be affected at other driving test centres that are not listed. DVSA will not know this until the day of the strike action.?

London, south-east England, south-west England and Wales

These areas include these test centres:

Aberystwyth (Park Avenue), Ashford (Kent), Aylesbury, Banbury, Bangor, Barnstaple, Basingstoke, Belvedere (London), Bletchley, Bodmin, Bridgend, Bristol (Avonmouth), Bristol (Brislington), Bristol (Kingswood), Bromley (London), Burgess Hill, Caernarfon LGV, Camborne, Canterbury, Cardiff (Llanishen), Cardigan, Carmarthen, Cheltenham, Chertsey (London), Chichester, Chingford (London), Chippenham, Crawley, Dorchester, Eastbourne, Enfield (Brancroft Way), Enfield (Innova Business Park), Erith (London), Exeter, Exeter LGV, Farnborough, Folkestone, Gillingham, Gillingham LGV, Gloucester, Greenford (London), Guildford, Hastings (Ore), Hendon (London), Herne Bay, Hither Green (London), Isleworth (Fleming Way), Lancing, Launceston, Lee On The Solent, Llanelli, Llantrisant, Maidstone, Merthyr Tydfil, Mill Hill (London), Monmouth, Morden (London), Newbury (Hambridge Lane), Newport (Gwent), Newport (Isle Of Wight), Newton Abbot, Oxford (Cowley), Pembroke Dock, Pinner (London), Plymouth, Plymouth LGV, Poole, Portsmouth, Reading, Rhyl, Sevenoaks, Sidcup (London), Slough (London), Southall (London), Southampton (Maybush), Southampton LGV, Swansea, Swindon, Taunton, Tolworth (London), Tottenham, Tunbridge Wells, Uxbridge (London), Wanstead (London), Weston-Super-Mare, Winchester, Wood Green (London), Wrexham, Wrexham LGV, Yeading (London) and Yeovil.

Tests at other driving test centres in these areas might also be affected.?

North-east England, north-west England, Yorkshire and the Humber, the East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, and parts of London

These areas include these test centres:

Aberdeen North, Aberdeen South (Cove), Airdrie, Ashfield, Atherton (Manchester), Ayr, Barking (Tanner Street), Barnet (London), Barnsley, Barrow In Furness, Basildon, Beverley LGV, Birmingham (Garretts Green), Birmingham (Kings Heath), Birmingham (Kingstanding), Birmingham (Shirley), Birmingham (South Yardley), Birmingham (Sutton Coldfield), Bishopbriggs, Bishops Stortford, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Blyth, Bolton (Manchester), Borehamwood (London), Boston, Bradford (Heaton), Bradford (Thornbury), Bredbury (Manchester), Brentwood (London), Bridlington, Burton on Trent, Bury (Manchester), Bury St Edmunds, Buxton, Cambridge (Brookmount Court), Carlisle, Carlisle LGV, Chadderton, Cheetham Hill (Manchester), Chelmsford (Hanbury Road), Chester, Chesterfield, Chorley, Colchester, Coventry, Crewe, Darlington, Darlington LGV, Derby (Alvaston), Doncaster, Dudley, Dumfries, Dundee, Durham, Edinburgh (Currie), Edinburgh (Musselburgh), Elgin, Featherstone, Gateshead, Glasgow (Anniesland), Glasgow (Baillieston), Glasgow (Shieldhall), Goodmayes (London), Gosforth, Grangemouth, Grantham (Somerby), Greenock, Grimsby Coldwater, Halifax, Hamilton, Hartlepool, Heckmondwike, Heysham, Hinckley, Hornchurch (London), Horsforth, Huddersfield, Hull, Inverness (Seafield Road), Ipswich, Irvine, Kendal (Oxenholme Road), Kettering, Kilmarnock LGV, Kings Lynn, Kirkcaldy, Knaresborough, Leeds, Leicester (Cannock Street), Leicester (Wigston), Leighton Buzzard (Stanbridge Road), Letchworth, Lichfield, Lincoln, Livingston, Loughborough, Loughton (London), Lowestoft (Mobbs Way), Ludlow, Macclesfield, Middlesborough, Nelson, Norris Green (Liverpool), Northallerton, Northampton, Norwich (Jupiter Road), Norwich (Peachman Way), Nottingham (Chilwell), Nottingham (Colwick), Nuneaton, Paisley, Perth (Arran Road), Peterborough, Peterborough LGV, Peterhead, Pontefract, Preston, Redditch, Rochdale (Manchester), Rotherham, Rugby, Sale (Manchester), Scarborough, Scunthorpe, Sheffield (Handsworth), Sheffield (Middlewood Road), Shrewsbury, Southend-on-Sea, Southport (Liverpool), Speke (Liverpool), St Albans, St Helens (Liverpool), Stafford, Steeton, Stevenage, Stirling, Stoke on Trent (Cobridge), Stoke on Trent (Newcastle under Lyme), Sunderland, Telford, Tilbury, Upton, Wakefield, Wallasey, Walton LGV, Warrington, Warwick (Wedgenock House), Watford, Watnall, Wednesbury, Weedon LGV, West Didsbury (Manchester), Widnes (Liverpool), Wolverhampton, Worcester, Workington, Worksop and York.

Tests at other driving test centres in these areas might also be affected.?

If you want to change your driving test date now?

Not all examiners are?PCS?union members, and even if they are, they might choose not to go on strike.?

However, you can?change your test to another date?if you want to.?

You must give at least 3 clear working days notice to change your test date, or youll have to pay again.?

What to do if you do not change your test?

You should go to your driving test appointment as planned if its on the date of strike action, unless?DVSA?contacts you to tell you not to go.?

DVSA?will call you to tell you what to do if youre taking an instructor test including:?

• ADI?part 2 (driving ability) tests?
• ADI?part 3 (instructional ability) tests?
• ADI?standards checks? ?

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If your driving test cannot go ahead?

DVSA?will automatically rebook your driving test for you if it cannot go ahead because of the strike action.?

Youll be sent the new details within 5 to 10 working days. You do not need t

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