TAXI AND PRIVATE HIRE:
Just to make this “forgotten industry” perspective clearer, these are the employee statistics within some other UK industry sectors. It is clear that the taxi and private hire industry outnumbers all these other sectors by far.
• £3.45m Covid-19 Food Charity Grant Scheme • £16m Provide Meals for those in need • £14m Covid-19 support fund for zoos and aquariums • £30mDomestic Abuse Survivors and Survivors of Sexual Violence • £5m Loneliness Covid-19 Grant Fund
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• £10m Domestic abuse safe accommodation: Covid-19 emergen- cy support fund
• £6m Homelessness • £1.8m Survivors of Modern Slavery • £22m support for Health Charities • £15m Citizens Advice service • £5.4m to support legal advice sector during the Covid-19 • £26.4m Department for Education • £7.8m Home Office - for vulnerable children • Furlough scheme 80% of total income (salary)
• £1,000 per year increase for unemployed, plus £150 per house- hold reduction of council tax payment
ARMED FORCES – TOTAL UK
• Army, Royal Navy/Marines, RAF; Gurkhas, Reserves and MOD personnel:
244,390
POLICE FORCE – TOTAL UK • Officers, admin staff:
202,023
ROYAL MAIL – TOTAL UK • Postal delivery staff, admin and casual staff:
251,000 CIVIL SERVANTS – TOTAL UK
• Central government departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies:
TAXI AND PRIVATE HIRE INDUSTRY ccording to DfT statistics
421,040 515,889
We could go on, but then the list would get boring, and I think we have made our point!!
FUNDING FOR TAXI & PRIVATE HIRE DRIVERS? £0
The DfT suspended MoTs for six months; but this did not include compliance tests.
Bus and lorry drivers – who must undertake medicals under Group 2, as do taxi and private hire drivers - were granted an exemption from medicals and can drive under a temporary one-year licence. Taxi and private hire drivers have not been afforded that same priv- ilege. (We must state here that several local authorities in fact did grant this extension but right now we are talking about central government announcements and measures to help and support.)
As mentioned, the website
GOV.UK sends multiple daily bulletins to the NPHTA in respect of every aspect of transport within the UK. During the month of June these bulletins featured weekly slide sheets entitled “Transport use during thecoronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic”. So we thought, This’ll be interesting… let’s see how our sector stacks up in this table. It doesn’t.
NOT ONE MENTION ANYWHERE!! COVID-19 OTHER FUNDING - WHO GETS WHAT
• £6m for Armed Forces charities and community interest compa- nies
• £60,000 to support mental and physical health, the elderly, domestic violence, bereavement, and employment.
• Grants of up to £125,000 or more are available.
• Up to £10,000 to support projects delivered under social restric- tions for Armed Forces communities isolated due to the Covid-19
• £10m to pilot England’s fishing and aquaculture sectors. • £750m to VCSE voluntary, community and social enterprises
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The table (top right opposite page) show usage changes frombefore lockdown to the present date (of the latest survey). So for example, if bus use outside London was rated at 102% on the 9th March, then by the 8th June it had reduced down to 18% of normal usage. The table displays similar figures for: cars, light commercial vehi- cles, heavy goods vehicles, all motor vehicles, National Rail, TfL Tube, TfL Bus, bus (excluding London), and cycling.
THERE IS NEVER ANY MENTION OF TAXIS AND PRIVATE HIRE
Yes, sure… taxis and PHV “could” come under “cars”; but even the tally for cars is inaccurate, as shown by the sourcing footnote: it only accounts for cars that were using Google Map for directions.
JULY 2020
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