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  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade (1)

    • Reference: 2019/17378
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    Do you consider that drivers within the taxi/PH industry are sometimes exploited? What do you consider as the causes of such exploitation?

  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade (2)

    • Reference: 2019/17379
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    What amount of education does TfL provide and how many hours of training do Private Hire Drivers undergo before they become licensed?

  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade (3)

    • Reference: 2019/17380
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    On 24 June 2018, Andrew Gilligan wrote in The Sunday Times that Uber had investigated 1,100 drivers for serious offences: how many of those drivers had been assessed by TfL as being fit and proper to hold a private hire driver’s licence? What measures have TfL introduced in the year since Uber investigated its own drivers for serious offences? 1 1 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uber-investigates-1-100-drivers-for-…

  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade (4)

    • Reference: 2019/17381
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    Do you agree that TfL should interview all applicants for taxi and/or private hire licences and test their ability to drive before allowing them to proceed to drive the public?

  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade (5)

    • Reference: 2019/17382
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    Does TfL abdicate all responsibility for testing and interviewing private hire driver licensees to Operators?

  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade (6)

    • Reference: 2019/17383
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    Given that TfL do not regulate App companies, are they putting the safety of the public at risk by not insisting that all companies operating in the industry hold an Operator’s licence?

  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade (7)

    • Reference: 2019/17384
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    What percentage of (i) private hire drivers (ii) taxi drivers have been tested for disability awareness?

  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade (8)

    • Reference: 2019/17385
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    What percentage of (i) private hire drivers (ii) taxi drivers have been tested for customer service?

  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade (9)

    • Reference: 2019/17386
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    What measures has the Mayor taken to address increases in sexual assaults and road traffic accidents in the private hire trade that were not put in place by the previous Mayor?

  • Taxi and Private Hire Trade (10)

    • Reference: 2019/17387
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2019
    To ask the Mayor if he supports the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association call for a limit on the number of minicabs operating in the capital?