Question follow-through · 60516
Taxis: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to ensure that all taxi drivers undertake safeguarding training.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to ensure that all taxi drivers undertake safeguarding training.
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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24 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department for Transport’s statutory guidance, published in 2020, to licensing authorities on how they should use their powers to protect children and vulnerable adults recommends that they should require taxi and private hire vehicle drivers to under...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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