Driving test touts offer instructors £250 monthly kickbacks – BBC

NJ Convery, Bobbi Huyton and Abi Smitton BBC News Investigations Watch the BBC confront Anil Ahmed, 34, who buys driving instructors’ login details and then sells tests online at a mark-up. He says the claims we put to him are a “complete fabrication” Driving instructors are being offered kickbacks of up to £250 a month to sell their official test-booking login details to touts, a BBC investigation has found. Touts use these login details to book driving tests in bulk and sell them to learners on WhatsApp and Facebook, charging as much as £500 for tests that should cost no more than £75. This makes it harder for learners to book through legitimate routes and adds to already lengthy waiting times. The BBC has also uncovered evidence that the outgoing head of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), Loveday Ryder, was told about these operations in February – yet some sellers reported to the DVSA are still operating. In response, the DVSA said it does not comment on specific complaints but has zero tolerance for those exploiting learner drivers. We have identified touts operating in London, Birmingham, Manchester and the Home Counties. Posing as driving instructors, we approached them
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