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Taxis: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of out of area taxi operations on public safety.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
5 Nov 2025
Answer
5 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of out of area taxi operations on public safety.

  2. 5 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Nov 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 r...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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