Driving Licences: Older People
Commons · Question 21154 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 8 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Ruth Cadbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate has she made of the average time taken to process an application for an over 70s driving licence.
Answer
Answered by Justin Madders, 8 Sep 2026
The information requested is not readily available and can only be extracted at disproportionate cost. To extract this information would require a manual interrogation of each driving licence renewal application to determine if the applicant was aged 70 o...