Question follow-through · 15646
Taxis: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making the LGA's voluntary shared database on taxi driver licenses mandatory.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 22 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 26 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making the LGA's voluntary shared database on taxi driver licenses mandatory.
26 Nov 2024
Target answer date
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2 Dec 2024
Answer published
On 27 April 2023, the remainder of the Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Act 2022 was commenced, and the Department designated the use of a database, which previously operated on a voluntary basis supported by the Local Govern...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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