{"id":513742,"date":"2026-04-05T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513742\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:00:12","slug":"driving-lessons-how-will-fuel-price-rises-affect-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513742\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving lessons: How will fuel price rises affect learners?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachael Hutson-Lumb has been a driving instructor for four years.<\/p>\n

She told Newsbeat she’s been “keeping an eye” on fuel prices, and has had to raise lesson prices by 50p to \u00a337.50 per hour.<\/p>\n

“My prices are going up a bit, not a lot, because I appreciate lessons are already not cheap for learners.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to put prices up but at the end of the day, if it’s a cost that’s increasing, it’s going to have to be reflected.<\/p>\n

“Changes are going to have to be made just because that’s my income stream,” she says.<\/p>\n

According to motoring group the RAC, UK petrol and diesel prices<\/a> jumped more than in any previous single month, largely due to the war, although the government has said fuel supplies are “resilient”.<\/p>\n

The Driving Instructors Association (DIA), the UK’s largest group representing the profession, says passing costs on to learners “will be a consideration for trainers”.<\/p>\n

Rachael, 26, says “most” of her learners are fine, for the moment, with the price.<\/p>\n

“They were coming to me and asking me: ‘Oh, fuel’s really expensive, are the prices going to go up?’ They’re so aware of it,” she says.<\/p>\n

“And they also understand that when they go on to pass, it’s going to be something that’s going to impact them as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachael Hutson-Lumb has been a driving instructor for four years. She told Newsbeat she’s been “keeping an eye”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}