Well this is certainly worth a new thread, and not just added to the TransComm thread, in my opinion at least
So the Greater Manc authorities have written in response to the Wolverhampton top bod's oral evidence to the committee, basically saying he was talking out of his backside regarding the claim that Wolverhampton did nothing proactive in relation to building up licence numbers.
In particular, they highlight that Wolves PHVs can get an MoT anywhere in the country in lieu of a standard council 'taxi' compliance test.
And also that Wolves 'onboarded' drivers by going out and about across the country rather than requiring drivers to visit Wolverhampton
(Strange they use the term 'onboarding', which is a distinctly Uber-esque term, maybe taken on by the likes of Veezu, rather than one used by licensing authorities.)
There's a link below to a useful summary on TaxiPoint, but the source document isn't that long, and only really four pages of stuff (ignoring the preliminaries etc), so a link to that as well.
Kudos to Taxi Point as usual for keeping an eye on this stuff
But the submission is slightly odd because it's by Salford Council, but on behalf of all the Greater Manc authorities.
So there's a wee clanger in the Taxi Point summary because of that - the headline refers to councils in the plural, then to Salford Council itself, then again to councils in the plural, and then refers to all the Greater Manc authorities. So the prose is slightly illogical in that regard, and the grammar slightly misleading (I'm sure there's a technical word for that kind of thing, but can't think of it offhand).
But it's almost like one of those AI hallucinations, or at least a minor example thereof
