Lists of Accessible Taxis under S167 Equality Act 2010

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Dear East Hampshire 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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Emma Grieve, East Hampshire District Council

Dear Mr Paulley,

In reply to your FOI request I can provide the following information:
The Council has not produced and does not currently intend to produce a list of wheelchair accessible taxis or private hire vehicles under the powers set out in S167 of the Equality Act 2010.

We have one driver who had an exemption before S167 was put in place and they are no longer licenced with us, and none since then.

As far as I am aware this Authority did not compile a list of accessible taxis and private hire vehicles following the Department for Transports guidance 15th September 2010.

Regards,
Emma Grieve
Senior Environmental Health Officer (Licensing)
East Hampshire District Council, Penns Place, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU31 4EX
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Yours sincerely,

Doug Paulley