Useful connections

Understand the journey around the lesson.

Find official road, traffic, public transport and weather information for your part of the UK.

Local population and vehicle access

Connect your area’s official resident and household figures to driving decisions.

Local traffic and road safety

Explore annual data for GB authority areas.

Fuel costs over time

Official weekly UK prices for planning.

Filter by location or subject

Local context England and Wales

Census 2021 main languages

All 106 main-language categories on April 2023 local-area codes. Detailed languages and group subtotals remain separate; no instructor language inferred.

Access: open. Update pattern: Census release.

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ONS / Nomis · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context England and Wales

Census 2021 English proficiency

Local English-proficiency context for inclusive communication, retaining the different Welsh main-language definition.

Access: open. Update pattern: Census release.

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ONS / Nomis · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context England and Wales

Census 2021 disability and everyday activities

Self-reported population context, with source definitions and aggregate categories. Does not establish driving fitness or adaptation needs.

Access: open. Update pattern: Census release.

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ONS / Nomis · Coverage and reuse conditions

Transport England and Wales

Census 2021 journeys to work

Historic commuting modes, including motorcycle, car driver, passenger, public transport and homeworking. Coronavirus-period caveat retained.

Access: open. Update pattern: Census release.

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ONS / Nomis · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context England

Local Blue Badge counts and population measures

153 local authority profiles from DIS0105 and DIS0108, with badge counts, original thousands units, rounding and eligibility context.

Access: open. Update pattern: Annual.

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Department for Transport · Coverage and reuse conditions

Transport England

Travel, car access and licence holding by disability

All nine DIS04 workbooks with original table labels, age groups, sample sizes, weighting and 2025 diary-change notes.

Access: open. Update pattern: Annual.

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Department for Transport / National Travel Survey · Coverage and reuse conditions

Geography United Kingdom

ONS postcode products

Geographic joins. Commercial use of Northern Ireland postcode data needs the appropriate LPS licence.

Access: licensed. Update pattern: Quarterly.

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ONS · Coverage and reuse conditions

Geography Great Britain

OS OpenData

Names, roads, boundaries and terrain; product-specific releases.

Access: open. Update pattern: Product dependent.

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Ordnance Survey · Coverage and reuse conditions

Geography United Kingdom

OpenStreetMap

Map context and volunteered road/place records; retain ODbL provenance.

Access: open. Update pattern: Continuous.

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OpenStreetMap contributors · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context United Kingdom

Population estimates by age

Learner-age population denominator; no inference about individual demand.

Access: open. Update pattern: Annual.

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ONS / Nomis · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context England and Wales

Car or van availability

Household transport context; census years differ across UK nations.

Access: open. Update pattern: Census.

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ONS Census 2021 · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context Scotland

Scotland Census 2022: car access, languages, disability and commuting

Six source tables, including British Sign Language skills, calculated from 46,363 output areas for all 32 councils. Derived counts retain special-value processing and disclosure-protection notes.

Access: open. Update pattern: Census.

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National Records of Scotland · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Census 2021 household vehicle availability

Household vehicle access and demographic context.

Access: open. Update pattern: Census.

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NISRA · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context England

English indices of deprivation 2025

Area-level context only. Do not rank individual learners or compare ranks across nations.

Access: open. Update pattern: Release.

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MHCLG · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context Wales

Welsh index of multiple deprivation 2025

Within-Wales neighbourhood context.

Access: open. Update pattern: Release.

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Welsh Government · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context Scotland

Scottish index of multiple deprivation

Within-Scotland context; retain the edition and revision.

Access: open. Update pattern: Release.

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Scottish Government · Coverage and reuse conditions

Local context Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland multiple deprivation measure

Within-NI context; not directly comparable to other nations.

Access: open. Update pattern: Release.

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NISRA · Coverage and reuse conditions

Roads Great Britain

Road safety open data

Police-reported injury collisions. Counts are not a route-level safety rating without exposure.

Access: open. Update pattern: Annual.

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DfT · Coverage and reuse conditions

Roads Northern Ireland

Road traffic collision statistics

NI police-recorded injury collisions, with source disclosure controls.

Access: open. Update pattern: Annual.

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PSNI · Coverage and reuse conditions

Roads Great Britain

Road traffic counts API

Count points and annual average daily flows, with estimated versus measured flags.

Access: open. Update pattern: Annual.

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DfT · Coverage and reuse conditions

Roads Northern Ireland

Traffic count data

NI traffic counter locations and observations.

Access: open. Update pattern: Release.

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DfI / OpenDataNI · Coverage and reuse conditions

Roads England

Street Manager roadworks

Registered roadworks data; coverage is England.

Access: registration. Update pattern: Live.

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DfT · Coverage and reuse conditions

Roads Scotland

Traffic Scotland developer hub

Trunk-road incidents and travel information feeds.

Access: registration. Update pattern: Live.

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Transport Scotland · Coverage and reuse conditions

Roads Wales

Traffic Wales developer feeds

Trunk-road disruption and bilingual travel feeds.

Access: reference. Update pattern: Live.

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Welsh Government · Coverage and reuse conditions

Roads Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland roadworks

Roadworks RSS and geographic context.

Access: open. Update pattern: Live.

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DfI / OpenDataNI · Coverage and reuse conditions

Roads Great Britain

Digital traffic regulation orders

Restrictions and speed limits where published; incomplete authority coverage.

Access: registration. Update pattern: Live.

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DfT · Coverage and reuse conditions

Transport Great Britain

National Public Transport Access Nodes

Stops and stations for test-centre access; no journey times inferred from stop distance.

Access: open. Update pattern: Regular.

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DfT · Coverage and reuse conditions

Transport Great Britain

Traveline developer data

Timetable datasets; some APIs need separate licences.

Access: registration. Update pattern: Nightly.

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Traveline · Coverage and reuse conditions

Transport Northern Ireland

Translink open transport data

NI bus and rail timetables; retain validity period and feed format.

Access: open. Update pattern: Timetable changes.

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Translink · Coverage and reuse conditions

Transport London

Transport for London open data

Stops, disruptions and transport context.

Access: registration. Update pattern: Live.

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TfL · Coverage and reuse conditions

Roads United Kingdom

Weather warnings

Official warnings; never infer that a test is cancelled.

Access: registration. Update pattern: Live.

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Met Office · Coverage and reuse conditions

Context needs interpretation. Collision counts are not personal risk predictions or instructor-approved practice routes. A nearby bus stop is not a journey planner. Weather warnings and roadworks do not establish that a test is cancelled.