Taxi Driver Online

Objections have gone in, FOI questions have been asked, some other questions have been asked. Just waiting for the responses.

Oh dear, defo Grandad no-mates.

You might want to ask them for the minutes of when they adopted the 1976 act?

The council have to keep two copies of accounts? One for the licensing of badges and one for everything else, the questions below should give you all the answers?


a) Please provide a copy of any report submitted by Licensing officers to the Head of Function or any Council body to request authority to implement the most recently revised scale of fees.

b) Please provide a copy of the financial estimates for the operation of the Taxi Licensing function for 2012/13

c) Please provide details of the number of vehicle licenses, driver licenses and operator licenses the Council envisages issuing in the current year.

d) Please provide a copy of the Job description of each member of staff wholly or partly employed in the carrying out of the vehicle, driver and operator licensing function. For staff not wholly employed on such activity please advise the percentage of time charged to the taxi and non-taxi activity in their job descriptions.

e) Please advise details of the staff and management structure in respect of taxi licensing.

f) Please advise details of staff costs charged directly to the licensing account
NB. I only request details of the posts and the aggregated total annual forecast cost including all Employer’s on-costs.

g) Please provide a copy of the Subjective Cost Centre(s) Budget(s) for taxi licensing activity showing the estimated costs and income for 2011/12 against each relevant nominal ledger code. Please also supply a copy of the year to date outturn to the last available accounting period and any forecast outturn for the current financial year.

h) Please provide details of how recovery of corporate overhead and any other indirect or apportioned charges are calculated for the Taxi Licensing Subjective cost centre(s).

i) Please advise, under the Council’s Constitution and scheme of delegation, which
Cabinet member(s) and Officers have responsibility for the determination of the
Council’s policies and practice in respect of any matters relating to its powers
under the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 and The Local Government

Objections have gone in, FOI questions have been asked, some other questions have been asked. Just waiting for the responses.

Response to objection is:- I acknowlege receipt of your objection, a date will now be set to discuss any objections received. I will inform you of the outcome of that meeting.
So it would seem that the meeting will be held behind closed doors.

I have received a reply regarding e and f above.
For part f the staff costs for the year are stated as £31,670.

Response to objection is:- I acknowlege receipt of your objection, a date will now be set to discuss any objections received. I will inform you of the outcome of that meeting.
So it would seem that the meeting will be held behind closed doors.

That is not how it works.

It goes before committee in fully open and transparent meeting.

I will be mentioning this on Monday.

b) Please provide a copy of the financial estimates for the operation of the Taxi Licensing function for 2012/13

f) Please advise details of staff costs charged directly to the licensing account
NB. I only request details of the posts and the aggregated total annual forecast cost including all Employer’s on-costs.

g) Please provide a copy of the Subjective Cost Centre(s) Budget(s) for taxi licensing activity showing the estimated costs and income for 2011/12 against each relevant nominal ledger code. Please also supply a copy of the year to date outturn to the last available accounting period and any forecast outturn for the current financial year.

h) Please provide details of how recovery of corporate overhead and any other indirect or apportioned charges are calculated for the Taxi Licensing Subjective cost centre(s).