FollowFollowFollowFollow Taxi and private hire licence holder must be fit and proper people in order to hold a licence. Assessing the fitness of a licence holder or applicant involves a number of assessments including those relating to the medical fitness of a...
FollowFollowFollowFollow Taxi and private hire drivers are expected to declare police cautions. However, there is often uncertainty over cautions, what they are and whether they should be declared. What is a police caution? There is often a misconception that a...
FollowFollowFollowFollow Grant Shapps MP, Secretary of State for Transport has confirmed that Government have no plans to introduce primary legislation to reform taxi and private hire licensing law. Mr Shapps gave evidence before the Transport Select Committee when...
FollowFollowFollowFollow The Minister of State for Department for Transport, George Freeman MP has suggested that the Queen’s speech may include taxi law reform provisions. In a House of Commons debate on 3 of October, MPs debated Taxi and Private Hire Licensing...
FollowFollowFollowFollow 2019 DfT statistics show that the growth in private hire licensing continues to dominate the growth in the taxi and private hire sector. The DfT statistics reported that the “number of total licensed vehicles in England increased by 2.5%...
FollowFollowFollowFollow It is well established that licensing exists to ensure that only those people deemed to be fit and proper are able to obtain, and retain, a taxi or private hire licence. One aspect of determining a person’s fit and proper state involves...
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