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We took two councils off – South Derbyshire and Broadland – because they do not license any hackney carriages. This left us with a list of 340 councils, which amazingly divided into four lists of 85 councils. This simple mathematical discovery, assisted by fingers on calculators, formed the basis of an analysis which was very interesting.
So we divided the country into four quarters: the top 25 per cent of councils obviously have the highest number of WAVs, and the last quarter has the lowest. But all four sections contain 85 councils.
In Section Eighteen set out below you will see a summary breakdown of these sheets. I have to say that they were quite amazing: the top 25 per cent of the councils on the list have 40,858 wheelchair accessible taxis; the second quarter have 3,207; the third quarter 1,056; and the fourth quarter only 260 WAVs.
We then divided off on each sheet, as you will see, an analysis of the population of each of the quarters, the WAV percentage of each quarter, and the type of council that makes up each quarter. I think that most people’s expectation of the size and type of council is formally proved in these statistics – and indeed should give you all food for thought.
We have had a number of requests as to the number of wheelchair accessible private hire vehicles that are available around the country. We are a quarter of the way through that survey, and we anticipate adding those sections to the overall survey by the next issue of PHTM.
This survey has been done in the interest of answering hundreds of questions which have been posed over the last few months by councils, the industry, and indeed Government. So please feel free to pass this on to anybody who might be interested. Please feel free to put it on any web- site that you believe will be informative.
Under the Disability Discrimination Act very little happened in 15 years. Now that we have the Equality Act, let us see if we can make a difference. Until next time, sayonara.
SECTION 18
TOTAL 2010 Fleet total %
Fleet total - Without London Fleet total % - Without London
TOP 25% FIGURES
Total number of vehicles Fleet total % of 77,588
Fleet total without London ( 55,588) Fleet total % - Without London
Second Quarter Figures Total number of vehicles Fleet total % of 77,588
Fleet total without London ( 55,588)
Third Quarter Figures Total number of vehicles Fleet total % of 77,588
Fleet total without London ( 55,588)
Fourth Quarter Figures Total number of vehicles Fleet total % of 77,588
Fleet total without London ( 55,588) PAGE 12
SCOTTISH FIGURES Total number of vehicles Scottish WAV / other % Scottish % of all 88389
WELSH FIGURES Total number of vehicles
Percentage of National fleet (77,588) Welsh WAV / other %
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