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Come on Dusty, get with it!

The incentive would be that they would be remote from their area and do what they please, without any real enforcement, irrespective of the fact that the proposals are to allow enforcement officers to work cross-border.

These guys are predetory and you very rarely find them where they can be caught, especially in the dead of night when licensing enforcement officers are well tucked up in bed and into their fourth or fifth hour of sleep.

You really must live in a closeted world or drive days only.

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I gave up half way through most of it deals with the actual costs of the various options and why a two tier system is the better option. I found it hard to understand how they calculated the costs

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The 100% doesn't relate to what's what now, but after the Law Commission's proposals are adopted.

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IDFIMH

It has never got below 90.

You don't work part-time for IBIS do you?

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IDFIMH

Just ignore the numbers - again I think the word is 'spurious' anyway.

When I asked the same question some months ago , there was no answer forthcoming at that time.

Now all of a sudden we have an answer.

I smell a rat!!

I have the info from other sources now and it is correct.

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Indeed I'm inclined to agree with you about enforcement and in fact I was going to say that the reason some might want to do a Berwick even if there's no need in terms of barriers to entry or fees is so that a taxi licensed in another area would facilitate illegal plying for hire because of signage issues rather than using a PH licensed in the 'correct' area.

But I haven't really got to the enforcement bit yet, and was just trying to establish some basic principles as far as quality is concerned without trying to look at the thing more holistically.

When I said never below 90, I actually meant never below 80. In fact I had to check the list as I thought it was higher than it is.

As for your 73 number, and your source, if it was 73 and is now 86, then please list the 13 councils that have restricted in the last few months.

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IDFIMH

Well I wouldn't get too bogged down with the minutiae, particularly the NPV (Net Present Value) business.

What they're simply doing is comparing the costs of introducing something with the benefits over a number of years.

So something might cost £10,000 over the first two years to introduce, but over the next eight years might save a total of £50,000.

So the Net Present Value over ten years is £40,000. All they're basically saying is that the net saving of introducing the change is £40,000.

The difficult bit is that with a NPV calculation they adjust the figure in the future slightly because they can't be directly compared with with the figures nearer to the present day. So a figure arising in five years is adjusted compared to a figure today, while a ten year figure is adjusted even more than the five year one.

Think of it as a bit like adjusting for inflation, so basically an NPV calculation compares costs of introducing something with the future benefits.

The NPV is the 'profit', if you like.

However, the problem with it all is that there are so many assumptions and suchlike that the end results don't really mean very much, but let's not go there!

But politically it provides a good headline figure - we'll be better off by £x million by doing this, for example - although the figures are to a large extent little better than guesswork.

Well they can already, but if he means plying for hire then that's not proposed?



No change proposed.



But since the proposal is for minimal PH standards then the problem won't actually be cross-border PH, it'll be PH licensed by his own authority.



Not proposed and ain't gonna happen.



No need for the sarcasm.

At least he was right about the derestriction proposal.

But he doesn't mention a moratorium on badges, so what difference would limiting plates make?