DVSA Driving Test Fees and Contact Details (2026)

Current test fees

These are the amounts you pay the DVSA directly when you book. The change service itself is free as long as you give enough notice, ten working days for the practical and three clear working days for the theory.

Weekday versus weekend fees

The car test has two prices, and the difference is simply when the test takes place. A test on a weekday, during standard hours, costs sixty two pounds. A test in the evening, at the weekend, or on a bank holiday costs seventy five pounds. The thirteen pound difference reflects the less standard timing. If keeping costs down matters more than convenience, a weekday daytime slot is the cheaper choice. If you can only attend outside working hours, the higher fee is the trade off for that flexibility. Either way, the fee is the same whether you book online or by phone.

Paying the right amount

You should only ever pay the figures above. There is no booking fee, no admin charge and no service charge when you use the official channels. If a website is asking for more than sixty two or seventy five pounds for a car test, or more than twenty three pounds for a theory test, you are not on the official service. Since 2026, third parties cannot legally book or change your test for you anyway, so there is no legitimate reason to pay anyone extra to handle it. Keep your card details for the official gov.uk service only.

Official phone numbers

Calls to 0300 numbers cost the same as a standard landline call and are included in most mobile call allowances.

Official email addresses

• customerservices@dvsa.gov.uk for short notice cancellation refund requests and general queries. Use the subject line Unavoidable short notice cancellation for refund claims, as set out in our short notice refund guide.

Official web addresses

Bookmark the ones you need. Typing the address yourself, rather than clicking an advert, is the simplest way to be sure you land on the genuine service.

Service hours

• Online change and cancel service: daily, 6:00 AM to 11:40 PM.
• DVSA booking phone line: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
• Theory test booking line: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

The online service is open far longer than the phone lines, so for most changes and cancellations it is both quicker and more convenient. Reserve the phone for swaps, which can only be done by phone, and for situations where you need to speak to someone.

Avoiding copycat sites

A few habits keep you safe. Look for gov.uk in the web address before you enter any details. Ignore sponsored search results and scroll to the official gov.uk listing. Never pay more than the fees on this page. And remember that since 2026 no third party can legally book or change your test for you, so any site offering to do so is not one to trust with your card. When you are ready to act, head straight to our change guide or cancel guide, which both link only to the genuine service.

Fee scenarios

A few common situations show how the fees actually apply. If you book a weekday daytime car test and change it, in time, to another weekday daytime slot, you pay sixty two pounds once and nothing more. If you book a weekday test but later move it to a Saturday, you move into the seventy five pound band and pay the difference. If you miss the ten working day window and have to rebook, you pay the full fee again for the new slot, because the original is lost. And if you cancel a theory test with three clear working days notice, the twenty three pounds comes back to your card. Seeing the fees as bands rather than a single price makes these outcomes predictable.

How to recognise the official site

The simplest safeguard against overpaying is knowing what the official service looks like. The genuine booking and change services always sit on the gov.uk domain for Great Britain, and nidirect.gov.uk for Northern Ireland. The address bar is your proof. Official pages never charge an admin or booking fee on top of the test price, never promise to find you a guaranteed earlier date, and never offer to book on your behalf, because since 2026 only you can do that. If a site does any of these things, it is not the official service, however official it looks. Type the address yourself rather than clicking adverts, and you will land in the right place every time.

What the phone lines can and cannot do

The phone lines are useful, but it helps to know their limits. The booking line on 0300 200 1122 can book a test, help with a swap, and assist if you cannot use the online service. It operates Monday to Friday during office hours, so it is not available in the evenings or on Sundays when the online service still is. The customer services email address handles short notice refund requests and written queries, not instant bookings. For most date, time and centre changes, the online service is quicker and open far longer than any phone line, so reserve the phone for swaps and for situations where you genuinely need to speak to a person.

Welsh language and accessibility

If you would prefer to deal with the DVSA in Welsh, a dedicated Welsh language line is available on 0300 200 1133. The online services also offer Welsh language options. If you have access needs, the booking line can help you arrange a test with appropriate support and make sure that support carries across if you later change the appointment. Whatever channel you use, the fees are the same, since the price depends on the type and timing of the test, not on how you book it.

Payments and receipts

When you pay through the official service, your confirmation email acts as your receipt and record, and it carries the test reference number you will need for any future change. Keep it safe. If you ever need to query a payment or a refund, that email is the document to quote. Refunds, when due, return to the original card automatically, so you do not re enter payment details to receive one. Treat the confirmation email as the single most important piece of paperwork in the whole process, because nearly every later action, from changing to cancelling to claiming a refund, refers back to it.

One simple rule on money

If you remember nothing else about fees, remember this: you only ever pay the test price, and only ever on the official service. A weekday car test is sixty two pounds, an evening, weekend or bank holiday car test is seventy five pounds, and a theory test is twenty three pounds. There is no booking fee, no admin fee, and no service charge attached to the genuine service. Any site asking for more than these amounts, or adding a charge to handle the booking for you, is not the official service and is not worth your card details. Since 2026, no third party can legally book or change your test anyway, so there is no legitimate service that needs to charge you a premium to do it.

This single rule protects you from the copycat sites that cluster around driving test searches, often as paid adverts at the top of the page. The defence is to ignore the adverts, scroll to the official gov.uk listing, or simply type the address yourself. Once you are on a gov.uk page for Great Britain, or a nidirect.gov.uk page for Northern Ireland, you know you are paying the right amount to the right people. Bookmark the addresses you need from the table above, and you remove the risk entirely.

Keep your confirmation, it is your key

Every official booking generates a confirmation email, and that email is the single most useful document in the whole process. It contains your test reference number, which you need to sign in for any future change or cancellation, and it serves as your receipt and your proof of the booking. Save it somewhere you can find it, and do the same with any new confirmation you receive after a change. If you ever need to query a payment, chase a refund, or recover access to your booking, that email is what you will be asked for. Losing it is not fatal, since the booking line can help you recover your reference, but keeping it saves time and hassle at exactly the moments you least want either.

Fees and contacts at a glance

Everything on this page reduces to a short, reassuring summary. The car test costs sixty two pounds on a weekday and seventy five pounds for evenings, weekends and bank holidays, and the theory test costs twenty three pounds. The change itself is free with enough notice, ten working days for the practical and three clear working days for the theory, and you only pay again if you miss the window. The official booking and change services live on gov.uk for Great Britain and nidirect.gov.uk for Northern Ireland, the DVSA booking line is 0300 200 1122, the Welsh language line is 0300 200 1133, and Northern Ireland's DVA is on 0300 200 7862. Short notice refund requests go to customerservices@dvsa.gov.uk. Keep that handful of facts nearby and you will never be caught out by a copycat site or an unfamiliar number.

The single protective habit worth repeating is to start from the official address every time. Type gov.uk or nidirect.gov.uk yourself, or scroll past the adverts to the genuine listing, and confirm the domain before you enter any details. Pay only the test price, never an added booking or admin fee, and remember that since 2026 no third party can legally book or change your test anyway, so any site offering to is one to avoid. Bookmark the addresses and numbers you need, save every confirmation email as your receipt and key, and the money side of the driving test becomes the simplest part of the whole process. When you are ready to act, our change guide and cancel guide link only to the genuine service.

It is worth saying plainly that the official fees are deliberately modest, and there is never a legitimate reason to pay more. The whole point of a government run service is that everyone pays the same set price for the same test, with no premium for booking online, no surcharge for changing, and no commission to a middleman. When you see those facts clearly, the copycat sites lose their power entirely, because their only offer is to charge you extra for something that is either free or cheaper direct. Pay the test price on the official domain, keep your confirmation safe, and you have handled the money side perfectly.