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date	09/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2019 to Question 240585 on taxis: licensing, how his Department is planning to restrict cross-border hiring by private hire drivers; and what the timescale is for bringing forward legislative proposals.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	252471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>Government is considering how any restriction of out-of-area journeys by taxis and private hire vehicles proposed by the Chair of the Task and Finish Group might work in practice, with a view to legislating.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 14/05/2019 14:22:37 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1125744

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to provide statutory definitions of pre-booked and plying for hire, in order to maintain the two-tier taxi and private hire regulation system, as recommended by the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Licensing.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	252472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>Providing a statutory definition of plying for pre-booking and plying for hire was considered as part of the Government response to the report by the Chair of the Task and Finish Group. The response issued on 12 February explained that since the Law Commission concluded in 2014 that a statutory definition of plying for hire would not be a practical improvement on the current position and there being no change in the legal situation, the Government would not take forward that recommendation.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 14/05/2019 14:18:55 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake