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PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2025 2:34 am 
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I've no doubt the DfT are highly critical of Wolves, at least in terms of allusion and implication. But there are only two occurrence of the word 'Wolverhamtpton' in the submission, and this is it:

DfT wrote:
The taxi and PHV licensing regime is designed to be self-funded through
licensing fees. Licensing authorities are not permitted to use taxi and PHV
licensing revenue for other purposes. There are significant variations in
fees; our understanding is that 3-year PHV driver fees are around: £400 for
Harlow; £380 for York; £300 for Southampton, £300 for London and £140
for Wolverhampton.

DfT wrote:
Standards are not necessarily “lower” where licenses are cheaper. For
example, the statutory guidance recommends licensing authorities check
the DBS record for updates every 6 months; the City of Wolverhampton
carries out automated criminal records checks on a daily basis. That
example of a more stringent requirement has no impact on law-abiding
drivers and a low impact on the licensing authority.

I mean, how NOT to stick the knife in :-o


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 9:08 pm 
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For what it's worth, the Taxi Point article about the private meeting seems to have been reinstated (I checked again just in case I was in error and/or it was a technical glitch).

https://www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/trans ... rs-next-ph

However, when I searched for the original source (if any, other than Taxi Point) the other night, there were also Google links to a post on Taxi Point's Facebook page, and another one on another black cab Facebook page which looks suspiciously like an offshoot of TaxiPoint. And both the other links seemed to have been disabled or deleted as well, so it certainly looked like the piece had been pulled in some way.

Anyway, that is the link to the piece above, and the link is live at the moment.

Not that there's anything earth-shattering in it, apart from the fact that it's a private meeting with the grassroots of the trade.

But still interesting to know where that info came from, which doesn't seem to be in the public domain as far as Parliament is concerned. Or at least I can't find anything official, apart from the link on the TansComm site simply saying there's a private meeting taking place :?


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 9:13 pm 
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Note, though that the piece is highly speculative, and includes several uses of the words 'expected to', and 'expected', as opposed to concrete information.

So in fact the only thing not really available publicly is that the attendees would be from the grassroots, as opposed to licensing bods, corporate representatives and pressure groups from outside the trade, blah, blah.


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 9:21 pm 
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StuartW wrote:
Note, though that the piece is highly speculative, and includes several uses of the words 'expected to', and 'expected', as opposed to concrete information.

So in fact the only thing not really available publicly is that the attendees would be from the grassroots, as opposed to licensing bods, corporate representatives and pressure groups from outside the trade, blah, blah.


the word your looking for is 'Speculative' :wink: although you did actually write it :oops:

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 11:18 pm 
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:-s


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