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Written Question
Taxis: Licensing
Monday 13th March 2023

Asked by: Paul Howell (Conservative - Sedgefield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many National Register of Taxi and Private Hire Licence Revocations and Refusals searches were submitted by (a) Newcastle City Council, (b) Sunderland City Council, (c) Hartlepool Borough Council, (d) Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, (e) Darlington Borough Council and (f) Durham County Council in the last year for which data is available.

Answered by Richard Holden - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport

Use of the National Register for Refusals and Revocations (NR3) is recommended in the Department’s Statutory Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Standards which was published in 2020. The Department is monitoring usage of the NR3 and communicates with local authorities on this matter regularly.

Searches conducted by the local authorities listed over the last year:

Licensing Authority

Drivers Licensed (31 March 2022)

NR3 Searches (March 2022 – Feb 2023)

Darlington Borough Council

365

342

Durham County Council

1,405

789

Hartlepool Borough Council

352

4

Newcastle City Council

4,576

0

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

744

725

Sunderland City Council

737

481

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