Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 97333

Motor Vehicles: Testing

Tabled: 4 December 2025
Answered: 16 December 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle of Wight East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time was for MOT appointments in (a) November 2025 and (b) each month since July 2024.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
Neither the Department for Transport nor the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), which administers the MOT scheme, collects or holds data on waiting times for MOT appointments. The MOT test is delivered by a network of around 23,000 privately oper...

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