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date	23/02/2016
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 make an assessment of the effect of the five times increase in the annual upfront fee charges for private hire operator licences by local authorities on small and self-employed operators.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	28080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>Local licensing authorities can charge fees for private hire vehicle operator licences that recover the cost of administering the licensing system.</p><p> </p><p>Renewing a licence every five years, rather than more frequently as may have been the case in the past, reduces a financial and administrative burden on many of the small and medium size enterprises that make up the private hire vehicle industry.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 26/02/2016 11:33:44 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

454313

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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, what recent discussions he has had with the local licensing authorities on the introduction of five-year private hire operator licences by local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	28081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>Five-year private hire vehicle operator licences were introduced in October 2015. Since that time, local licensing authorities have not made any representations to me on the subject.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 26/02/2016 11:36:04 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan