Department for Transport written question – answered at on 16 December 2024.
Louie French
Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Culture, Media and Sport)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has had discussions with Transport for London on the potential implications for her policies of Transport for London's planned revised Taxi and Private Hire Action Plan.
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Government sets the regulatory structure within which 263 licensing authorities in England license the taxi and private hire vehicle sector and issues guidance to assist them in doing this. Transport for London are the licensing authority for London and the Department discusses a range of taxi and private hire vehicle licensing matters with them.
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