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Fiona Bruce MP urges Government to stop cross-border taxi hiring

FIONA Bruce is calling on the Government to stop cross-border taxi hiring. The MP for Congleton, as a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Taxis, is urging transport minister Chris Grayling to resolve the issue.

Cross-border taxi hiring is where a taxi registered in one borough operates in another even if they do not have a licence to do so.

Mrs Bruce said: "I have met a number of times with a group of taxi drivers from the Congleton constituency for whom this has been a major problem for some time. "Taxi drivers without the licence to operate here in Cheshire come across the county border to take business from within this area, which they do not have the right to do. "This is particularly concerning on late weekend nights when local taxi drivers who work long hours need this business and it is galling for them to have it wrongly taken."

In a letter written to Mr Grayling, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Taxis says that some drivers have been 'exploiting' a clause in the Deregulation Act 2015, which allows them to operate in different boroughs to where they are registered.

The letter said: "In such cases, authorities are left with no control over which drivers operate in their local area, ultimately leaving them unable to protect passengers and the public. "Local authorities must have te power to decide who does and who doesn't work in their area."

Mrs Bruce has previously worked with Cheshire East Council and Cheshire Police in a bid to resolve the issue, and she is now calling on the Government to introduce a statutory definition of cross-border, stronger locally-appropriate regulations and minimum licensing standards. "We must ensure we have fair regulations for local taxi drivers who work extremely hard to serve this community," she added.

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IDFIMH

perhaps the honourable lady needs reminding which party is responsible for this situation in the first place by accepting donations in exchange for the legislation that enabled this

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

How many other parties objected to the two taxi sections of the dereg act?

And when did Uber ever use those sections in the course of their operation?

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IDFIMH

How many M p's know what they are voting for anway.

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!