FOI request (FOIR-636758214)

Taxi licensing

Requested Wed 07 August 2024
Responded Thu 22 August 2024

Please may I request the following information under the FOI Act.

Since the 1st August 2022:

1. The number of new and renewed taxi (Hackney Carriage) driver licenses you have granted.

2. The number of new and renewed Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) driver licenses you have granted.

3. The number of taxi licences granted to drivers with criminal convictions.

4. The number of PHV licenses granted to drivers with criminal convictions.

5. In the cases of those with convictions in relation to question 3 and question 4:

a. The nature and date of conviction.

b. Whether said driver's conviction was known at the time of the licence being approved.

c. In each case, the current licence status of the driver.

6. The criteria/policy that is applied when deciding on an application from a driver with a current/spent conviction.

7. How many times have you checked the national database on driver revocations/refusals?

8. How many have had licenses removed due to that?

Response

1. 603 - Hastings Borough Council issues joint hackney/private hire licences.

2. Please see question 1.

3. Information not held.

4. Information not held.

5. Information not held.

6. Please see link to our licensing policy:

https://hastings.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s42814/APPENDIX%201%20HBC%20TAXI%20POLICY%20DRAFT%2012th%20May%2021.pdf

7. At every renewal and new application.

8. None.