Question follow-through · 77136
Taxis: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the safety of women and girls in taxis.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 15 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the safety of women and girls in taxis.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2025
Answer published
The primary purpose of the taxi and private hire vehicle licensing regime is public safety. Since coming into Government, we have been actively looking at ways to improve the existing licensing regime. We have committed to legislate to address the issues ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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