Bedford Driving Test Centre

Bedford Manton Lane Driving Test Centre

📍 Bedford Buckinghamshire East of England

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Overall pass rate, 2025/2026

National average 48.7% · this centre is 5pts above

The national average is combined from all the test centres where Veygo has data from gov.uk in 2025/2026.

About Bedford Manton Lane driving test centre

Welcome learner driver! This page provides information about Bedford Manton Lane driving test centre in Bedford, Buckinghamshire, East of England. On this page you will find data from gov.uk about the pass rates for Bedford Manton Lane across demographics, vehicle types, number of attempts, and age. You can find the map location for the test centre and directions here.

Latest DVSA data, 2025/2026

53.7%

Overall pass rate i

54.4%

First-attempt pass rate i

214

First-time faultless passes i

8,854

Tests conducted i

Transmission type

⚙️ Automatic vs manual for Bedford Manton Lane

Pass rates for automatic and manual car tests, side by side across five years.

For Bedford Manton Lane in 2025/2026, the manual pass rate was 57% compared with 46.8% for automatic tests, a difference of 10.2 percentage points.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

First-time candidates

🎯 First-attempt performance for Bedford Manton Lane

How first-time candidates perform, including the rate of faultless passes over time.

First-time candidates at Bedford Manton Lane passed at 54.4% in 2025/2026, which is 0.7 percentage points higher than the overall pass rate of 53.7%.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

By candidate age

🎂 Pass rate by age for Bedford Manton Lane

How pass rates vary by candidate age, from 17 to 25, in the latest year of data.

At Bedford Manton Lane in 2025/2026, 17-year-old candidates recorded the highest pass rate at 69.3%. Pass rates generally shift with age, and this chart shows how each age from 17 to 25 performed.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

Performance over time

🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Pass rate by gender for Bedford Manton Lane

How male and female pass rates at this centre have changed over the last five years.

In Bedford Manton Lane for the latest year of data (2025/2026), the male pass rate was 54.8%, which is 2.5 percentage points higher than the female pass rate of 52.3%.

Source: DVSA driving test data, published on gov.uk.

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