Question follow-through · 21448
Taxis: Working Conditions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has received representations on the working conditions of drivers in the private hire industry.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 25 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has received representations on the working conditions of drivers in the private hire industry.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Department for Transport discusses a range of issues with representatives from the taxi and private hire vehicle sector. Employment law and working practice policy, including working conditions, is outside of my Department’s remit and is owned by the ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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