Request ID: FOI-0243-2324 Date published: 16 May 2023
You asked
Can you please provide copies of:
1) Public Register of Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers;
2) Public Register of Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Vehicles?
Can you please confirm the reasons why your Licence Checker tool on your website tfl.gov.uk (Licence checker - Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk)) does not provide information about licences for Hackney Carriage drivers and vehicles?
We answered
Our ref: FOI-0243-2324/GH
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 17 April 2023 asking for information about Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers and vehicles.
Thank you for your email received on 21 Aprilasking for information regarding licensed taxi and private hire vehicles and drivers.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm that we the information you require.
Can you please provide copies of: 1) Public Register of Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Drivers; 2) Public Register of Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Vehicles?
The information you have requested is contained within the attached spreadsheet. All vehicles are licensed in London by Transport for London.
Please note that taxi and private hire vehicles are licensed on an annual basis and where there is a period of relicensing some data in the vehicle records are overwritten to reflect the new licence. Therefore, the information provided in the accompanying attachment is a snapshot of all licensed taxi and private hire vehicles as of 27 April 2023.
Can you please confirm the reasons why your Licence Checker tool on your website tfl.gov.uk (Licence checker - Transport for London (tfl.gov.uk)) does not provide information about licences for Hackney Carriage drivers and vehicles?
16Particulars of licences to be entered in a book at the registrar’s office. [F1(1)]The particulars of every licence which shall be granted as aforesaid shall be entered in books to be kept for that purpose at the office of [F2Transport for London]; and in all courts, and before any justice of the peace, and upon all occasions whatsoever, a copy of an entry made in any such book, and certified by the person having the charge thereof to be a true copy, shall be received as evidence, and be deemed sufficient proof of all things therein registered, without requiring the production of the said book, or of any licence, or of any requisition or other document upon which any such entry may be founded; and[F3, subject to subsection (2),] every person applying at all reasonable times shall be furnished with a certified copy of the particulars respecting any licensed person, without payment of any fee. [F4(2)Transport for London may disclose the address of a licensed person to any person only if it appears to Transport for London that the person has a sufficient reason for requiring that information.] Textual Amendments F1S. 16 renumbered as s. 16(1) (22.7.2008) by Transport for London Act 2008 (c. i), ss. 1(1), 12(2) F2Words in s. 16 substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 253, Sch. 20 Pt. I para. 1(2)(3) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch. F3Words in s. 16(1) inserted (22.7.2008) by Transport for London Act 2008 (c. i), ss. 1(1), 12(3) F4S. 16(2) inserted (22.7.2008) by Transport for London Act 2008 (c. i), ss. 1(1), 12(4)
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Yours sincerely
Graham Hurt FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
