SERVICES
Oct2018
Issue313
Private hire and taxi Insurance Specialists
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TASK AND FINISH GROUP REPORT CONSIDERED BY MINISTER
Following a series of meetings over nine months during 2017 and 2018, a report was submitted to the current Minister of State for Transport, Ms Nusrat Ghani MP, by the Chair of the Task and FinishGroup for Taxi and Private Hire Licensing. The Task and Finish Group was brought together by then Minister of State for Transport, the Rt Hon John Hayes CBE MP, and met for the first time in Septem- ber 2017. Members comprised industry representatives of stakeholder associa- tions and unions, local government and passenger safe- ty groups, and MPs. The purpose of the group was to advise the Minister on the adequacy (or other- wise) of current taxi and PHV licensing authority powers under existing legis- lation, and to make recommendations
for action to address priority issues. Part of this review in- volved an examin- ation of the Law Commission’s May 2014 report and pro- posals, which as PHTM readers will know were never responded to by pre- vious Ministers. By far the most diffi- cult task for the group was to priori- tise specific recom- mendations – both legislative and non- legislative – to ad- dress the plethora of difficulties faced by the industry today. To ensure that the group heard from a wide cross-section of the sector,
it
sought written evi- dence from a range of stakeholders, and further
invited a
selection of organi- sations to give oral evidence. The group received submissions from39 organisations and heard evidence fromeleven. The report, com-
posed by the Chair of the Group con- tains 34 recommend- ations which readers will find inside this edition on pages 68 and 69. The full report, including the rationale
behind
each of the recom- mendations, plus a list of all members and their individual comments, is avail- able on the PHTM and National Associ- ation websites, and has been sent to all NPHTA members in England. The editor of this publication, Donna Short, also director of the NPHTA, was one of the members of the Task and Fin- ish group, and was honoured to partici- pate. She stated: “It is only hoped that finally, a consolidat- ed focus
from
government and Par- liament will give this industry the support it badly needs. “There is so much work that needs to
be done, and the main part of that is raising awareness of the difficulties faced by members of the industry today. Most people – including some members of Parliament – still think that taxi/pri- vate hire work is nothing more than taking passengers from A to B.
In
today’s complex, com- petitive marketplace there is an awful lot more to it; hopefully this Government re- view – the third in 25 years - will provide the opportunity to listen to us all, and to consider some seri- ous reform.” What happens next? That all depends upon the timing of the Minister’s res- ponse, and whether/ when a full consulta- tion would be con- ducted
members of
amongst the
entire industry. As we are known to say quite
frequently, watch this space.
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