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Lower The Driving Age To 16.

Submitted on Sunday 10th August 2025

Rejected on Wednesday 20th August 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Lower The Driving Age To 16.

Petition Details

Currently, in the UK, you can apply for a provisional licence at 15 years 9 months, take a CBT lesson at 16, and start driving lessons at 17.

This petition asks to allow those 15 years 9 months+ to take both driving and CBT lessons and to drive cars and motorcycles from age 16.

Additional Information

By lowering the driving age, we give young people more freedom. The current labour government has lowered the voting age to 16, now it’s time to lower the driving age.
“They’re old enough to go to work, they’re old enough to pay taxes”- Keir Starmer when asked why he is lowering the voting age to 16. Why is it that 16 year olds are allowed to work and not drive to themselves to work. Inconsistencies as such, can negatively impact quality of life for the youth of Britain hence, this petition.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/733742

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