Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many taxi licences have been issued in each local authority area in each of the past three years.

The Department for Transport does not hold statistics related to taxi licences in the format requested. The Department does produce statistics every 2 years on the number of taxi licences issued. The latest statistics show the position as at 31 March 2105 in England and Wales and can be found in table TAXI0104 at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/taxi-and-private-hire-vehicles-statistics-england-2015

The total number of licensed taxis increased by 4.2% to 81,200 since 2013.

There was a slight drop in the number of taxi only driver licences from 63,200 in 2013 to 62,700 in 2015.