What are your recent experiences of the cost and availability of driving lessons and tests?
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00:00Driving lessons and driving tests are overly priced, and the wait time is kind of ridiculous.
00:07You know, get people on the road.
00:09My nephew recently did his, and I think he waited for the test for a few months.
00:13I think it needs a little bit of work to do for the department.
00:18I know it's busy everywhere, and I don't blame them.
00:20They are also busy, but something to look into.
00:24I know people that have been waiting for driving lessons or getting their tests booked,
00:27you know, for months.
00:28I'm 25 now.
00:29When I was a teenager, it was like £40 an hour.
00:33Now you're looking at £70 to £80 an hour, and obviously I know that that comes from
00:37a perspective of me coming from somewhere more rural in Wales.
00:41So it's not going to be as much of a market, but I mean, it should be nationalised.
00:45I think if you go to other countries, I lived in the Middle East, and that whole thing is
00:48nationalised.
00:49You don't get every Tom, Dick and Harry doing driver's lessons and charging an arm and a
00:53leg just to get people through a door.
00:55I think it should be something that's offered from the government and should be semi-affordable.