Lists of Accessible Taxis under S167 Equality Act 2010

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Dear Crawley Borough 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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Dear Sir,

 

Further to your request for information, please see below for the
Council's response in blue text.

 

 

Dear Crawley Borough Council,

 

1) Please advise if you have produced, or currently intend to produce, a
list of wheelchair accessible: This will be considered in the next few
months

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.  Crawley Borough Council has one private hire
driver who is exempt under Section 169 regarding carrying assistance dogs.
There are also two hackney carriage drivers who are exempt under Section
169 and one driver who is exempt under Section 166.

 

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. Crawley Borough Council has 123 hackney carriage vehicles
and vehicles licences from plate number 1 to plate 75 are all saloon
vehicles. Plate 76 to 134 are all wheelchair accessible vehicles. There
are currently 50 wheelchair accessible vehicles.

 

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.
Not produced

 

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

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Freedom of Information Section

 

FOI request No: 5043

 

 

 

 

 

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