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Department for Transport written question – answered on 10th May 2016.




Daniel Zeichner Shadow Minister (Transport)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport of 4 May 2016, Official Report, column 286, stating that the Government intends to commence sections 165 and 167 of the Equality Act 2010 in 2016, if he will also impose a statutory requirement on the driver of a private hire vehicle to accept and assist a wheelchair user and not to charge extra for providing such assistance.


Andrew Jones Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Government intends to commence sections 165 and 167 of the Equality Act 2010 this year, and impose this requirement upon both Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle drivers.

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

No actual date mentioned though

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

my guess 18 May Queens speech

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

And that only applies to WAV owners I presume:

"Section 165 places duties on drivers of designated wheelchair accessible taxis and PHVs. Designated vehicles are those listed by the licensing authority under section 167 (see ‘Lists of wheelchair accessible vehicles’,"

to announce it perhaps I was thinking implementation date

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

My guess would be sometime before 31st December 2016.

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Grandad,

Most of this stuff comes into play in October time.

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IDFIMH