What is it with full no claims?

So worst case is £2,500.

And the T&G are telling the minister that's why Sefton drivers are licensing in Sefton rather than Liverpool.

Well I have to agree with CC's take on the first set.

I noted - and I hope that the Committee did as well - that clearly asked Twice "How many do you represent", Kris Beuret avoided an answer - indeed she sounded more like a politician than the MP's in there, in her evasion.

Also she kept saying "the Website" - well if there is one it is well hidden, I'm b*ggered if I can find one.

I have to say, apart from a couple of mix ups, the Minister seemed to be on top of his game. That is not to say that I agree with him, but his points of view were clear. It was nice to get the impression that he was open to ideas from any quarter, including us. His clarity made the Chair and the Committee seem more competent as well. Though I still don't like the way this all seems to be going.

I think the select committee need a bit of sanity.....me and sussex next I think

I'm on a sabbatical.

The national and local trade are just going to have to get by without me for a year or so.

I must devote all my efforts to my one trade love, TDO.

I think the select committee need a bit of sanity.....me and sussex next I think

CC

Steve Wright: I sat before this Committee in 1993 and advocated a sensible Act for London, which is exactly what we have got. Now 40% of the private hire and taxi industry operates in London, without these ridiculous local controls. It has produced a safe, modern, less polluting taxi and private hire system than anywhere else in the country.

Steve Wright: There is still work to do and there is more work to do with enforcement, but from the public’s point of view, the private hire service is without problem.

Steve Wright: He also talked about the assaults that take place in private hire vehicles. They don’t take place in private hire vehicles at all; they take place in illegal cabs. They don’t take place in private hire vehicles. The Public Carriage Office has no records of any assaults whatsoever in the 4 million journeys a day in a prebooked private hire vehicle. They take place with the touts.

Steve Wright: The second point I would make about the RMT thing is that the particular assault that he referred to is subject to a police inquiry so that is in process at the moment. A company like Addison Lee has done 27 million journeys in London with never a single complaint or a prosecution against a driver for anything. So I think we need to put that into context.