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Cost of driving lessons…..what have you paid?

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GorgonzolaSouffle · 07/02/2022 22:06

After 4 months 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️, ds17’s provisional license has arrived.

What have you paid for driving lessons?

He’s paying half as he’s earning a fortune working at Starbucks 😂

OP posts:
lovelyupnorth · 07/02/2022 22:08

Our kids paid for their own £20 an hour had to book in two hour slots. We paid for the first test.

Sunshinedreaming2022 · 07/02/2022 22:11

£200 for 10 hours.

BigSandyBalls2015 · 07/02/2022 22:12

£32 an hour

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Saladd0dger · 07/02/2022 22:19

Iv just joined a instructor waiting list. £65 for 2 hours. Only posted my provisional off 3 weeks ago. Think it will be months before I get it back 😞

gogohm · 07/02/2022 22:19

I paid £22 12 years ago

KateTheEighth · 07/02/2022 22:20

£35 an hour here

One two hour lesson every week

Hope he passes soon... Confused

Wazzzzzuuuuuuup · 07/02/2022 22:24

£25 ph pre COVID, now £27ph. One passed, one has his test booked, youngest starts this year

daisypond · 07/02/2022 22:25

£30 an hour. We didn’t have a car for dd to practise in, so all lessons were done through driving school. We paid. We have not dared count it up.

Clockbookbeast · 07/02/2022 22:28

It's £25 a week here, 10% discount for blocks of 10 booked.

dalmatianmad · 07/02/2022 22:31

My youngest passed last week, 1st attempt. His were £25 an hour (midlands)

BlackAndPinkNose · 07/02/2022 22:34

£30 an hour. I paid for 10 lessons; provisional licence; theory test and practical test for 17th birthday - the rest were their responsibility.

Whatisthepointinthis · 07/02/2022 22:34

£300 for 10 x 1 hour

Mooloolabababy · 07/02/2022 22:41

Have you managed to book lessons for him op? Dd is 17 soon but we're waiting for her passport to come through before we can apply for her provisional. Had a very brief look in to lessons but everyone is booked up at the mo where we live!

Littlefish · 07/02/2022 23:16

@Mooloolabababy don't use your dd's passport to apply online for a provisional licence. There is a fault (which the DVLA is aware of) which means that new passports can't be used as the passport office doesn't hold a copy of the applicant's signature.

I ended up involving my MP after 3 months, and 108 phone calls to the DVLA (none of which was answered).

In the end, I had to start again from the beginning with a paper application.

It's intensely infuriating. I wrote to Grant Shapps too as he's the Transport Secretary. In his l return letter to me, he made it clear that the DVLA know about the fault, but aren't going to put a warning on the website about it. Fuckers. Not fit for purpose at all.

FoxyBadger · 07/02/2022 23:20

£28 per hour. DS passed first time last week. Had to wait 3 months from getting licence last June for first available theory test then booked practical test in October with first availability late January. So, a long process and probably more lessons than he would otherwise have needed but he was ready and well prepared.

Mooloolabababy · 08/02/2022 16:49

[quote Littlefish]@Mooloolabababy don't use your dd's passport to apply online for a provisional licence. There is a fault (which the DVLA is aware of) which means that new passports can't be used as the passport office doesn't hold a copy of the applicant's signature.

I ended up involving my MP after 3 months, and 108 phone calls to the DVLA (none of which was answered).

In the end, I had to start again from the beginning with a paper application.

It's intensely infuriating. I wrote to Grant Shapps too as he's the Transport Secretary. In his l return letter to me, he made it clear that the DVLA know about the fault, but aren't going to put a warning on the website about it. Fuckers. Not fit for purpose at all. [/quote]
Good to know, thank you!

RoseDog · 08/02/2022 16:55

I ordered Ds last week online with his passport and it took 4 days to get here, he has an old style passport though, we had to get him to sign a plain piece of paper and take a picture of it!

Lessons cost £27 I think, dd pays for her own and we will give Ds money for his birthday and he will use that then pay his own.

toomuchlaundry · 08/02/2022 17:02

We did a paper application for DS and it only took a few weeks. All instructors are booked up at the moment though

Wotrewelookinat · 08/02/2022 18:49

£30 per hour here near Ipswich, DD had 1.5hr lessons once a week.

CurlyMango · 08/02/2022 20:43

£33 per hour, and two hour lessons, so £66 each per week. I’ve twins…..

JuergenSchwarzwald · 08/02/2022 21:18

My son's lessons were £40 for 90 minutes.

JuergenSchwarzwald · 08/02/2022 21:19

I wrote to Grant Shapps too as he's the Transport Secretary. In his l return letter to me, he made it clear that the DVLA know about the fault, but aren't going to put a warning on the website about it. Fuckers. Not fit for purpose at all

Can't he just tell them to get off their bottoms and do it? Not much good being Transport Secretary if you can't tell people to do stuff...

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