Test centre · Speke (Liverpool)
Speke, Liverpool Driving Test Centre
A test from Speke, Liverpool can go out through Halewood, Garston, Hunts Cross and Grassendale, and on the roads between them.
40.5%
Pass rate in 2025-26, 9.5 points below Great Britain (50.0%). Every figure
Speke, Liverpool in DVSA's figures
DVSA figures for 2025-26, published 25 June 2026 · waiting time for July 2026, published 9 September 2026
Pass rate · 2025-26 · 40.5%
9.5 points below the Great Britain figure of 50.0% (the marker on the bar).
Joint 246th highest of the 259 centres with 1,000 or more tests.
- Tests taken
- 8,159
- 3,308 passed
- First attempts
- 41.5%
- 1,360 of 3,280
- Median wait
- 8.3 weeks
- tests taken in July 2026
- Automatic
- 37.2%
- 2,528 tests
- Manual
- 42.0%
- 5,631 tests
- Women · men
- 41.7% · 39.7%
- Aged 17
- 54.3%
- Aged 17 to 25
- 47.4%
- Car tests start from
- Unit 3 Dakota Business Park, Skyhawk Avenue, Speke, Liverpool, L19 2QR
- 53.34897, -2.88459
Source: DVSA tables DRT122A, DRT122C, DRT122D, DRT122E, DRT122F, DRT121G. Manual is our arithmetic: all tests minus automatic. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources and notes
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Pass rate by year
| Year | Pass rate | Tests | Passes | Against Great Britain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 40.5% | 8,159 | 3,308 | 9.5 points below (50.0%) |
| 2024-25 | 38.6% | 6,986 | 2,696 | 10.1 points below (48.7%) |
| 2023-24 | 33.1% | 9,213 | 3,051 | 14.8 points below (47.9%) |
| 2022-23 | 29.0% | 8,382 | 2,428 | 19.4 points below (48.4%) |
| 2021-22 | 33.1% | 7,898 | 2,616 | 15.8 points below (48.9%) |
| 2020-21 | 39.8% | 2,403 | 956 | 10.0 points below (49.8%) |
| 2019-20 | 33.8% | 7,445 | 2,514 | 12.1 points below (45.9%) |
| 2018-19 | 32.5% | 6,763 | 2,196 | – |
DVSA table DRT122A, each financial year it publishes for this centre. Great Britain from DRT121G, which starts in January 2019, so a dash marks a year with no whole-year Great Britain figure to compare.
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Speke, Liverpool beside Great Britain and nearby centres
| Centre | Pass rate | First attempts | Tests | Median wait | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speke, Liverpool | 40.5% | 41.5% | 8,159 | 8.3 wks | – |
| Great Britain | 50.0% | – | 1,998,621 | 11.1 wks | – |
| Widnes | 42.7% | 41.3% | 6,846 | 6.9 wks | 7.7 km |
| Norris Green, Liverpool | 37.8% | 36.0% | 13,472 | 15.3 wks | 11.0 km |
| Chester | 47.3% | 47.9% | 9,212 | 14.4 wks | 11.8 km |
| Wallasey | 54.3% | 54.4% | 968 | 20.5 wks | 12.2 km |
| Upton | 52.6% | 54.9% | 10,772 | 12.1 wks | 14.6 km |
Pass rates and tests for 2025-26; waits for tests taken in July 2026. A dash means DVSA publishes no figure we hold. Distances are straight lines between centres, and only centres with a page here are listed (find them from all test centres), so a centre we have not mapped yet may be nearer. You can book at any centre, but since 9 June 2026 a booked test can only be moved to one of the 3 centres nearest it, or back to the one you first booked (GOV.UK).
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Waiting times and booking
For tests taken at Speke, Liverpool in July 2026, the median wait between booking and the test was 8.3 weeks, against 11.1 weeks across Great Britain. DVSA estimated 20.0 weeks until at least one in ten appointments a week was free. These are a past month's figures; the dates you can book today are on GOV.UK.
DVSA cancelled 304 tests here in 2025-26, 3.7 for every 100 it conducted, most often for examiner leave. These are DVSA's own cancellations; we have found no published figures for tests cancelled by candidates.
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Questions about Speke, Liverpool test centre
What is the pass rate at Speke, Liverpool driving test centre?
40.5% of driving tests at Speke, Liverpool were passes in 2025-26: 3,308 of 8,159, according to DVSA. That is 9.5 points below the Great Britain figure of 50.0%.
How many driving tests were taken at Speke, Liverpool in the latest year?
DVSA records 8,159 car driving tests at Speke, Liverpool in 2025-26, of which 3,308 were passed.
Is the first-time pass rate at Speke, Liverpool different?
For first attempts the pass rate was 41.5% (1,360 of 3,280) in 2025-26, against 40.5% for all attempts.
What is the waiting time for a driving test at Speke, Liverpool?
DVSA's median wait between booking and taking a test at Speke, Liverpool was 8.3 weeks for tests taken in July 2026. It is a month's figure, not today's: GOV.UK shows the dates you can book now.
Where exactly is Speke, Liverpool driving test centre?
Car tests start from Unit 3 Dakota Business Park, Skyhawk Avenue, Speke, Liverpool, L19 2QR. On a map it is at 53.34897, -2.88459.
Is there an official list of routes for Speke, Liverpool driving test centre?
No. DVSA stopped publishing test routes in October 2010, and they are still not published, so you cannot check them before your test. The drives on this page are for visualisation and practice only: they show the kind of roads a test from here can use.
How does Speke, Liverpool compare with nearby test centres?
In 2025-26 the pass rate at Speke, Liverpool was 40.5%. The nearest centres with a page here: Widnes 42.7% (7.7 km away); Norris Green, Liverpool 37.8% (11.0 km away); Chester 47.3% (11.8 km away).
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Sources and notes
- DRT122A: Car driving test pass rates by gender and month: test centres. Data to March 2026, published by DVSA 25 June 2026.
- DRT122C: Car driving test pass rates by first driving attempt and gender, including zero faults: test centres. Data to March 2026, published by DVSA 25 June 2026.
- DRT122D: Car driving test pass rates by age (17 to 25 year olds) and year: test centres. Data to March 2026, published by DVSA 25 June 2026.
- DRT122E: Automatic car driving test pass rates by gender: test centres. Data to March 2026, published by DVSA 25 June 2026.
- DRT122F: Car driving test waiting times and availability by driving test centre, January 2019 to date: Great Britain. Data to August 2026, published by DVSA 9 September 2026.
- DRT121G: Car driving test waiting times and availability by country and region, January 2019 to date: Great Britain. Data to August 2026, published by DVSA 9 September 2026.
All from DVSA's driving test statistics, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Analysis by Driving Mastery; DVSA does not endorse it. A pass rate is not a measure of how hard a test centre is. It reflects who books there and how prepared they are, the mix of automatic and manual tests, and local road conditions, as well as anything about the centre itself. Manual figures are all tests minus automatic tests, which is our arithmetic rather than a DVSA figure. Waiting times are a median over the tests taken that month, not a quoted booking lead time.
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