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OFT response to Transport Select Committee report on taxis

12 February 2004

The OFT stands by its robust report into the taxi market and the finding that local authority restrictions on the number of taxis are detrimental to the general public and should be removed.

The 15-month study compared the service provided to consumers in areas that have restrictions and those that do not. It provides strong and compelling evidence that consumers benefit from lower waiting times, a more flexible service, greater taxi availability and are less exposed to the dangers of illegal cabs.

The OFT will study the Transport Select Committee's views carefully and provide a full response before Ministers decide on the way forward. The OFT is confident, however, that its report is based on sound evidence and that no false inferences have been drawn from the extensive evidence gathered.

The OFT also notes that the Transport Select Committee chose not to call any consumer group to give evidence for their report.

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IDFIMH

Of course the people at the OFT will make such a statement. There are probably a lot of jobs at stake at the OFT!
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I mean why on earth would the selective Select Committee wish to ask customers, and consumer groups?

Wouldn't be that they agreed with the OFT report?

Surely not?

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IDFIMH

The OFT are nothing more than go betweens for the fat cat p/h operators, the truth always comes out in the end. mark my words .
Why dont you have faith in your government . I do .

Well I'm most certainly not a fat cat operator.

In fact, little old me thinks that the fat cat operators would be more than happy to see the end of the OFT report.

Then they can keep their thin cat drivers, where they want them i.e. paying thousands of pounds a year.

Fat cat operators don't get a penny from independent HC drivers.

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IDFIMH

Oh yes the fat cats would have made a killing .How naive and narrow minded are you.All the H/C trade would have been forced to work through offices so dont kid a kidder.

Well not according to the Select Committee.

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IDFIMH

Why did the OFT not have the answers to questions raised.
Why go to the committee hearing without any documentation,basically naffall to use as a weapon to defend themselves.
The problem was the OFT not the select committee.
Try to keep up with the real facts.
It is a bitter pill to swallow when you lose.
Gwyneth Dunwoody is a patron saint to real Taxi Drivers not the P/H ones

I wonder if Gwyneth was ever a bus conductor.

What you missed out Sussex is the report is flawed and a waist of money

How many of us actually believed what the trade representatives said?

OFT were useless at the committee, so what?

As for the real facts, well you didn't get them from the bus-man.

I haven't lost anything, and even if the status quo remains, I haven't lost anything.

I don't think you would know what a real taxi driver is, but I will give you a clue, the opposite of one looks at you in the mirror.

As for whether GD was a bus conductor, quite possibly.

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IDFIMH

You don't have to be a ex bus driver or, train driver to find a report that's full of NOTHING we already knew was flawed from the start.

S/M you are so conceited i am not and dont need to look in a mirror.If you look into a mirror you are looking at your father's son . Thats an old cliche. I think you should pay a visit to the Conquest Hospital for some medication .
It may help if i tell you its at the back of the ridge in Hastings
They may even help you through a few anger management classes

They haven't moved it then?

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IDFIMH

so no one homes in on the real issue

why wasnt any consumer groups called to committee, I will tell you there are not any.

lads have your gloat at the select committee report, believe me this is no time to run scared, face the real issues, gwyneth dunwoody friend of taxi drivers? whatever gave you that idea?

way things are going our industry will be wiped out, as an industry that refuses to modernise.

I don't think I am handsome, but you just can't argue with a mirror.

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