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The latest DfT stats to March 2019 are out

There are several different relevant pages on the DfT's website, but this seems to be the main one, with links to the main report and the statistical tables:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistic ... gland-2019

Don't know if life's long enough to devote much time to analysing this, but some interesting stats on page 6 of the main report.

This shows that between 2018 and 2019, biggest increase in licensed vehicles was in Lewes - up 91.6% This was presumably due to Lewes-plated *HCs* working for Uber in Brighton.

Wolverhampton up 62.3% - obviously in this case it's *PHVs* working cross-border that's driving the increase here.

Another big increase is Aylesbury Vale - up 64.3%, but haven't a clue what's going on there

Biggest *decrease* in numbers in Rossendale - down 49.9%. Obviously that's the obverse of the Lewes scenario - they've tightened up on HCs doing private hire work elsewhere. 'Intended use' policies and tighter badge and vehicle spec, wasn't it?

Think they've done similar in Lewes since the period covered by the stats, so presumably the Lewes figures could show a similar *downward* trend next year, although no doubt Sussex can fill us in on that one.

Telford & Wrekin also down 33.9%, which relates to what was said in yesterday's thread about Wolverhampton-plated cars being used there. Think that's where Go Carz operates, and they've been encouraging drivers to licence in Wolverhampton?

Another big drop is St Albans - down 37.5%. I'm guessing some kind of cross-border badging at work here too

Interesting that 44% of all drivers work 6 days or more a week.

Shame they didn't ask for the hours worked.

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Not sure they have done enough.

That said the numbers increase will not continue at that rate, and the battles go on.

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Aylesbury vale HC's working Milton keynes as PH

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so locally comparing south kesteven and south holland

SKDC 340 hackney and 37 PHV which is one taxi per 375 people

South Holland 40 Hackney and 141 PHV which is one per 515 people

Quite a difference as SOuth holland Wav only for hackney

Rutland has 88 taxi/ph which is one per 451 pop which is 3 vehicles more than the previous year but 10 years ago Rutland had only 33 taxis/ph

10 years ago SOuth holland had 114 taxis/ph but SKDC had 325

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Interesting. So Cheshire West and Chester has 315 HC and 1223 PH, that's up 200 PH in 2 years. 221 people per vehicle.

Clearly Melton has the fewest taxis per head of population in the UK so maybe it is the best place in the UK to work

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