Statistical data set

Approved driving instructor (ADI) qualifying test data

Approved driving instructor (ADI) qualifying test volumes and pass rates for Great Britain overall and for each test centre.

From:
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Published
1 January 2025

ADI part 1 (theory) test data

Great Britain

These data tables are updated quarterly. They were last updated on 12 December 2024 with data to September 2024.

Table reference File name
DRT511A ADI part 1 tests conducted, passed and pass rates by financial quarter and financial year: Great Britain (ODS, 12.1 KB)
DRT511B ADI part 1 tests conducted, passed and pass rates by month, financial quarter and year, gender: Great Britain (ODS, 45.9 KB)

By test centre

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is aiming to publish annual data about ADI part 1 tests by test centre for the first time in June 2025. This will contain data from April 2024 to March 2025.

Table reference File name
DRT512A Not currently available

ADI part 2 (driving ability) test data

Great Britain

These data tables are updated quarterly. They were last updated on 12 December 2024 with data to September 2024.

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DRT521A ADI part 2 tests conducted, passed and pass rates by financial quarter and financial year: Great Britain (ODS, 12.1 KB)
DRT521B ADI part 2 tests conducted, passed and pass rates by month, financial quarter and year, gender: Great Britain (ODS, 45.5 KB)

By test centre

This data table is updated annually. It was last updated on 2 September 2024 with data to March 2024.

Table reference File name
DRT522A ADI part 2 (driving ability) test pass rate by gender: test centres (ODS, 160 KB)

ADI part 3 (instructional ability) test data

Great Britain

These data tables are updated quarterly. They were last updated on 12 December 2024 with data to September 2024.

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DRT521C ADI part 3 tests conducted, passed and pass rates by financial quarter and financial year: Great Britain (ODS, 12.2 KB)
DRT521D ADI part 3 tests conducted, passed and pass rates by month, financial quarter and year, gender: Great Britain (ODS, 44.7 KB)

By test centre

This data table is updated annually. It was last updated on 2 September 2024 with data to March 2024.

Table reference File name
DRT522B ADI part 3 (instructional ability) test pass rate by gender: test centres (ODS, 184 KB)

Changes to how this data is published

This data is now all published by DVSA. Before 2025, data for Great Britain overall was published by the Department for Transport (DfT).

You can view archived versions of the data as it was published by DfT in the National Archives.

View data in the National Archives.

Data you cannot find

Data you cannot find might have been published as a response to an Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

Send an FOI request to DVSA if you still cannot find the information you need.

By law, DVSA cannot send you information that’s part of an official statistic that has not yet been published.

Freedom of Information requests

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Help with the data

The driving test, theory test and driving instructor statistics information gives details about the data sources and how the tests work.

Contact DVSA to get help with published data.

DVSA management information team
mids@dvsa.gov.uk

Contact the DVSA press office if you’re a journalist or have a media enquiry about the data.

DVSA press office
pressoffice@dvsa.gov.uk

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Published 1 January 2025
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