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Taxi and private hire licensing – a call for evidence.
Deadline 5 April 2014

Are you a taxi owner or a taxi driver?

Are you a private hire vehicle owner, driver or operator?

Are you licensed by a local authority outside London?

Do you think that your licensing authority attaches unreasonable conditions to your licence?

If so, we want to hear from you.

The Government is considering the case for using legislation to intervene in the setting of taxi and private hire vehicle licence conditions by local authorities.

We want taxi and private hire licence holders (based outside London) to send us examples of conditions attached to their licences which they consider overly restrictive or unreasonable. We are principally interested in the standard conditions applied by a licensing authority to all licence holders of a particular category, though if you have unhappy about a personal condition then please feel free to include it.

So, if you have any such examples, please complete the survey form by 5 April 2014. DfT Online Survey

It is quite simple and straightforward. You will be asked (i) what sort of licence you are referring to; (ii) what district you are licensed in; (iii) a description of the condition which you think is unreasonable; (iv) why you think the condition is unreasonable; (v) what sort of cost is being imposed on you in complying with this condition; and (vi) any other relevant information.

We will then collate all the examples and provide local authorities with several weeks to provide explanations or justifications as to why the conditions in question are important.

Using the information obtained from this exercise, we will then weigh up the case for taking forward some sort of measure which would qualify local authorities’ powers to attach conditions to licences.

Please note that any information supplied could be released under The Freedom of Information Act 2000.


Buses and Taxis Division
Department for Transport
14 March 2014

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I would have thought this survey is the perfect way for people to complain about councils only licensing some vehicles if they take seats out.

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Maximum age of vehicles? Hey, hang on, why are they asking this when the LC asked the self same things at great expense not so long ago?