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Clause 11

BARONESS THORNTON


Page 8, line 22, at end insert—

“(e) the person who made the booking has consented to their booking being sub-contracted to a second operator.

(1A) A licensing authority may exercise all its powers over a vehicle licensed as a private hire vehicle or taxi if it is operating in their area, even if the licence was issued by another licensing authority.”

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Grandad,

And your view on that Gramps

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I have no problem with it whatsoever. I think the second part should have been included from the start.

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Grandad,

Spivs wont be happy.

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IDFIMH

Amendment defeated!

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Grandad,

Spivs happy then!

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/p ... 0349000290

The part of interest starts at 4.38pm

The concise version is as follows – the amendments failed.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Baroness Kramer: Let me move on to exactly that issue because it refers to the first part of Amendment 4. We looked at this very seriously because consent is attractive. First, we looked at the existing situation. As I said, subcontracting across districts in London has been going on for a decade. We have never heard—and we genuinely asked around as much as we could—of anyone complaining that a car came to get them which was not from the firm that they called. You call the Yellow cab company in your area, and a cab from Sun arrives to pick you up. We have never found any complaints that people were not asked for their consent before that happened. So the question arises: is there a problem? Again, within individual districts, subcontracting has been permitted for as long as anyone can remember. We have not had any complaints and cannot find anybody saying “I wasn’t asked before the subcontracting happened within this licensing district”.

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Grandad,

True - except for the fact all the vehicles used are effectively from the area licensed by the same licensing authority - TfL

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

But with standard testing and licencing conditions across the country, what will the problem be? We're back to the "don't trust the next council's testing regime" scenario.

I think part of the issue is we don't have universal standards before we are going to have universal fleets.

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