Lists of Accessible Taxis under S167 Equality Act 2010

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Dear Chiltern District Council,

1) Please advise if you have produced, or currently intend to produce, a list of wheelchair accessible:
a) taxis
and
b) private hire vehicles
under the powers set out in S167 of the Equality Act 2010.

2) Please identify how many a) taxi and b) PHV drivers have applied for medical / physical impairment exemption under S166 of the Equality Act 2010 since S166 was commenced. If you've created a list under S167, please identify how many of the exemptions were in place before S167 and how many have been put in since.

3) Please state whether you voluntarily compiled a list of accessible taxis and private hire vehicles following the Department for Transport's guidance of 15th September 2010, which stated, in relation to section 167, “although the list of designated vehicles will have no actual effect in law until the duties are commenced, we would urge licensing authorities to start maintaining a list as soon as possible for the purpose of liaising with the trade and issuing exemption certificates”. If you did produce such a voluntary list, please indicate when you did so, and provide the current list.

If you have produced a list of wheelchair accessible taxis and/or private hire vehicles under S167, or are going to, please tell me the following.

4) The date the list was instated or by which you intend to do so.

5) The accessibility requirements of a taxi for it to appear on the list.

6) How you intend to enforce drivers' compliance with S165.

7) The list.

Yours faithfully,

Doug Paulley

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King George V House, King George V Road
Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 5AW
Email: [1][email address]
www.chiltern.gov.uk
 
 

CHILTERN AND SOUTH BUCKS DISTRICT COUNCILS
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Date: 20/04/2017
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For the attention of: Doug Paulley
Our Ref: FOI 16190
 
   
   
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Date: 04/05/2017
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For the attention of: Doug Paulley
Our Ref: FOI 16190
 
   
   
Dear Sir

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Further to our acknowledgement to your email requesting information under
the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 we are providing you
with our response.

REQUEST

Freedom of Information request - Lists of Accessible Taxis under
S167Equality Act 2010 Dear Chiltern District Council, 1) Please advise if
you have produced, or currently intend to produce, a list of wheelchair
accessible: a) taxis and b) private hire vehicles under the powers set out
in S167 of the Equality Act 2010. 2) Please identify how many a) taxi and
b) PHV drivers have applied for medical / physical impairment exemption
under S166 of the Equality Act 2010 since S166 was commenced. If you've
created a list under S167, please identify how many of the exemptions were
in place before S167 and how many have been put in since. 3) Please state
whether you voluntarily compiled a list of accessible taxis and private
hire vehicles following the Department for Transport's guidance of 15th
September 2010, which stated, in relation to section 167, “although the
list of designated vehicles will have no actual effect in law until the
duties are commenced, we would urge licensing authorities to start
maintaining a list as soon as possible for the purpose of liaising with
the trade and issuing exemption certificates”. If you did produce such a
voluntary list, please indicate when you did so, and provide the current
list. If you have produced a list of wheelchair accessible taxis and/or
private hire vehicles under S167, or are going to, please tell me the
following. 4) The date the list was instated or by which you intend to do
so. 5) The accessibility requirements of a taxi for it to appear on the
list. 6) How you intend to enforce drivers' compliance with S165. 7) The
list. Yours faithfully, Doug Paulley

RESPONSE

Please refer to the attached document.

We hope this answers your questions, but if not, you can contact us
(details below) with your query quoting the FOI number at the top of this
page. You can also seek an internal review of your request if you remain
unhappy with the outcome. Ultimately you can complain to the Information
Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
should you remain dissatisfied, having exhausted the authority's internal
review procedures. If you would like more information about the role and
work of the Information Commissioner go to the website [2]www.ico.gov.uk

Yours faithfully
 
 
 
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Dear Chiltern District Council,

Thank you for the information, but please can you provide the information you haven't already provided?

I asked:

"If you have produced a list of wheelchair accessible taxis and/or private hire vehicles under S167, or are going to, please tell me the following.

"4) The date the list was instated or by which you intend to do so.
5) The accessibility requirements of a taxi for it to appear on the list.
6) How you intend to enforce drivers' compliance with S165."

You state you are currently producing a S167 list, so I'd be grateful if you could provide that information as requested.

thank you

Yours faithfully,

Doug Paulley

Dear Chiltern District Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Chiltern District Council's handling of my FOI request 'Lists of Accessible Taxis under S167 Equality Act 2010'.

You haven't provided some of the information I requested, nor given a valid exemption.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/l...

Yours faithfully,

Doug Paulley

Dear Chiltern District Council,

I have emailed the ICO with a S50 request in the following terms.

Hello Casework,

Please can you conduct a S50 assessment in relation to this request: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/l...

The council did not respond to elements 4, 5 or 6 of my FOI request,
and haven't responded to my request for internal review.

Thank you

Yours faithfully,

Doug Paulley

Chiltern District Council

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Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 5AW
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RESPONSE

Please refer to the attached document.

"If you have produced a list of wheelchair accessible taxis and/or private hire vehicles under S167, or
are going to, please tell me the following.

"4) The date the list was instated or by which you intend to do so. 

No date currently set, this will be as soon as practicably possible, but we are following the process
advised by the DfT statutory guidance. Therefore we do not hold this information

5) The accessibility requirements of a taxi for it to appear on the list.

We already have a requirement for certain vehicles to be wheelchair accessible and vehicles that meet this
requirement will be included on the list. The policy is available on our website at
[2]http://www.chiltern.gov.uk/taxi .

6) How you intend to enforce drivers' compliance with S165."

Action against drivers taxi and/or private hire licences should there be any drivers reported to be
failing to comply with this requirement. This will be dealt with on a case by case basis and any such
report will be fully investigated prior to a decision being made as to what action is taken.

Additionally you may now inspect the published data relating to licensing applications on our website via
the following link

[3]https://isa.chiltern.gov.uk/online-appli...

We hope this answers your questions, but if not, you can contact us (details below) with your query
quoting the FOI number at the top of this page. You can also seek an internal review of your request if
you remain unhappy with the outcome. Ultimately you can complain to the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF should you remain dissatisfied, having exhausted the
authority's internal review procedures. If you would like more information about the role and work of the
Information Commissioner go to the website [4]www.ico.gov.uk

Yours faithfully
 
 
 
CHILTERN DISTRICT COUNCIL
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