DVSA confirms new £62 rule for drivers from May 12 | Tech News

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has confirmed a new £62 rule for learner drivers from May 12. Changes launched on Tuesday (May 12) imply that learner drivers ought to solely ever pay the official DVSA price of £62 for a driving take a look at on weekends, or £75 on evenings, weekends and bank holidays. The fixed charges come as half of new guidelines to make reserving driving checks fairer for learner drivers, placing them “firmly in control of their own booking”.

Under the adjustments, it’s now in opposition to the law for third events, together with unofficial take a look at reserving and cancellation finder companies, in addition to driving instructors, to make a driving take a look at reserving for another person. It can also be a breach of DVSA’s phrases and circumstances for the reserving service for third events to change, swap or cancel a driving take a look at for another person.

The DVSA stated the adjustments purpose to crackdown on people reselling checks for revenue and imply learner drivers will no longer need to pay inflated costs to 3rd events when reserving their take a look at.

Beverley Warmington, DVSA Chief Executive, stated: “Our priority is to stop learners being exploited by third parties, put them in control of their driving test and make the process fairer by clamping down on businesses that resell tests at inflated prices.

“These new measures help bring a halt to a system where the use of bots and third parties increases the amount some learners pay for a test and blocks test availability for many others. These measures will help free up appointments for genuine learners who are ready to take their test.”

The DVSA stated the adjustments launched on May 12 construct on the discount within the quantity of adjustments that may be made to a take a look at from six down to 2, which got here into pressure on March 31, 2026.

And additional restrictions are on account of come into pressure on June 9, 2026, which is able to restrict learners to transferring their take a look at solely to 1 of the three nearest driving take a look at centres.

The transfer goals to discourage people from making bookings at places the place learners don’t intend to take their take a look at.

Driving instructors and driving faculties can nonetheless advise learners on when they’re able to take a take a look at and set their out there occasions, stopping learners from reserving checks at occasions that don’t work for them.

Simon Lightwood, Minister for Roads and Buses, added: “This government inherited record waiting times and a huge backlog of learners waiting for tests, with the system seeing too many people paying over the odds to third-party touts.

“But we’re taking action and seeing results, delivering almost 2 million tests over the past year, more than 158,000 extra tests since June 2025, and military driving examiners now on the ground helping boost capacity across the country.

“These new rules put learners back in control by stopping others from snapping up tests and reselling them for profit, helping make the system fairer and ensuring tests go to the people who genuinely need them.”