Taxis: Standards

(asked on 22nd July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she had with the Secretary of State for Transport prior to the announcement on changes to the statutory taxi and private hire vehicle standards on 21 July 2020.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 7th September 2020

The new standards address a number of concerns raised in investigations into child sexual exploitation and abuse, including the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham, about safeguarding in taxis and private hire vehicles. The Home Secretary has made clear that such failures must never be repeated.

The Department for Transport has worked with Home Office ministers and officials to develop the changes.

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