Driving test backlog

It’s a disgrace how long it took for some action to stop the bots booking all the tests. The rogue driving instructors selling their details to them should be in big trouble imo.
We are on our second teenager learning through this shambles and i can’t quite believe we are still in the same situation nearly 3 years on.
Our local test centre seems to have examiners going off ill frequently so tests cancelled on the morning of, and no priority for rebooking. It’s a farce, and will take forever to get back to normal. So frustrating for anyone ready to take their test.

The whole “backlog” thing is bullshit.

The problem was always dodgy driving instructors booking up all the tests and selling them on. Now they have removed the ability of instructors to change the name on tests the problem is slowly resolving itself, surprise surprise.

Yes it’s awful. But it’s also the lack of examiners - I know a couple of people who retrained as driving instructors and are loving it but have no interest in being an examiner, not well paid and a bit of a thankless task.
i thought my two DDs had it bad, trying to learn with the stop start lessons during Covid and then it being so difficult to get a test, but this is even worse now.

Not at all, it's rubbish. DDs driving instructor is hopeful that it will start to get easier now that only the learner can book a test. We looked almost daily for a good couple of months but eventually managed to get a cancellation for DD. Until that one popped up there were never any tests available at our local centre. And thank god it did, because she'd booked a test in our next nearest town just to get access to cancellations, and the new location rules meant she wouldn't have been able to move it back (the new rule about only being able to move a test to one of the 3 nearest test centres throws up some weird situations where you can move a test one way to your next nearest town, but can never move it back, because that town has 3 nearer centres on the opposite side of town to you).