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<p>The Department for Transport does not hold this information. The Government is
responsible for setting the regulatory structure within which licensing authorities
in England issue taxi and private hire vehicle service licences.</p><p> </p><p>Licensing
authorities have a duty to ensure that any person to whom they grant a licence is
a fit and proper person. As part of this assessment all licensing authorities require
an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check; this provides details of convictions
and cautions and may include additional information which a chief police officer reasonably
believes is relevant and ought to be disclosed.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is consulting
on draft statutory guidance to be issued to licensing authorities on how they should
use the extensive existing powers to protect children and vulnerable adult when using
these services. This includes a policy on the assessment of previous criminal convictions.
The draft policy places passenger safety as the priority while enabling past offenders
to sufficiently evidence that they have been successfully rehabilitated so that they
might obtain a licence.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>
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