From the DVSA:

In October 2022, we asked you to complete our ‘Working as a driving instructor’ survey. This was formerly known as the ADI Demand survey.

This was to get feedback on a range of topics which helps us to plan for the future, find more about out how the current economic situation has affected your business and more.

We are pleased to share the full results of this survey on GOV.UK. 

The main findings

• 6% of you said that high driving tests waiting times are leading to learners taking a break in lessons
• a quarter of you (25.0%) provide lessons in a car with automatic or semi-automatic transmission
• 2% currently use electric vehicles and 37.3% of you plan to change the vehicle type for which you offer lessons in the next 5 years
• Half (50.6%) of you swap between 1 to 5 test bookings every month
• Most (51.2%) of you think it would be effective to set a test swap limit for each organisation based on the monthly average of driving tests they book to stop abuse of the service

In our latest blogpost , Nick Taylor, ADI Registrar, tells you more about the survey and:

• why we asked new questions
• the main findings
• what we plan to do with your feedback

Read the full blog on Despatch.

Updating the Online Business Service terms and conditions

The information you have provided in the survey has been extremely helpful for understanding how you are using ‘book and manage driving tests for your pupils’ service.

We are currently in the process of updating our terms and conditions for using OBS and we will use this information to inform these decisions.
We plan to share our updated terms and conditions with you in the next few weeks.