Question follow-through · 51658
Taxis: Body Fluids
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to extend the availability of DNA spit kits to licensed private hire drivers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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- Aviation: Licensing · 27 Oct 2025
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to extend the availability of DNA spit kits to licensed private hire drivers.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
Violence against transport workers is unacceptable and something I take very seriously. That is why my Department's best practice guidance to taxi and private hire vehicle licensing authorities in England sets out my expectations for the sector including ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Aviation: Licensing
27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people held pilot licences issued by the Civil Aviation Authority permitting them to fly commercial passenger flights on (a) UK-registered aeroplanes and (b) aeroplanes operated by UK-licensed airlines