Motor Vehicles: Licensing
Commons · Question 82049 · Tabled 14 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to local authorities on whether to undertake a (a) consultation and (b) safeguarding assessment in the context of the application of vehicle plate-exemption powers.
Answer
Answered by Lilian Greenwood, 22 Oct 2025
The best practice guidance issued by the Department to taxi and private hire vehicle licensing authorities in England advises that private hire vehicles should only exempt the display of a licence plate by a private hire vehicle in exceptional circumstanc...