I was told that if the council do a compliance test you can ask for an MOT certificate as well, maybe pay a £1 for the admin.
After a previous pit test I asked for the MOT only to be told 'in order to issue one we have to carry out an MOT test', when I asked what the difference between the compliance and MOT tests was they said 'the compliance tests stricter' !
So they'd have to do the compliance test, then do a less thorough MOT test before they'd issue an MOT certificate, even though they'd just checked everything (and more) on the compliance !!

And charge me for each test seperately !