Taxi/Private Hire Drivers and Operators

The request was successful.

David Littlejohn

Dear Fife Council,

Under the provisions of FOI legislation can you please provide the following with regards to private hire/ taxi driver licence and operator licence applications.

1. Details of the checks undertaken during the vetting of applicants, excluding the vetting undertaken by Police Scotland
2. A copy of your vetting standard operating procedure
3. Does the vetting include checking if the applicant has previously held or had a similar licence refused, revoked, suspended etc from another licensing authority?
4. If no vetting, apart from that undertaken by Police Scotland, takes place, has a risk assessment detailing the risks of allowing the granting of licences been undertaken?
5. If a risk assessment has been completed please provide a copy?
6. If no risk assessment has been undertaken please provide details of why not?
7. Details of the training undertaken by all employees involved in the vetting procedures, not including the vetting undertaken by Police Scotland.

Yours faithfully,

David Littlejohn

Fife Council

Dear David Littlejohn,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Thank you for your information request received on 02/04/2017, our ref: 16837. This is being dealt with in terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

We are presently assessing your request and may be in touch soon to ask for further clarification or to offer advice and assistance if we are not able to fulfil your request in its present form.

The legislation allows us up to 20 working days from the date that we receive a valid request, including any clarification we require, to make a final response. We will be in touch within 20 working days of receipt of your initial request to provide our response or to seek clarification where necessary. We hope to provide you with the information you are looking for at an earlier date where possible.

Yours sincerely,

D Boyack
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Denise Boyack, Fife Council

Dear David Littlejohn,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

 

I refer to your email dated and received 02/04/2017, our ref 16837. 

 

I am pleased to enclose the information you requested and trust that it
meets your requirements.

 

1.       Checks are made to determine if they have previously been refused
a licence by Fife Council and right to work checks are conducted to ensure
they have the required documentation showing they are entitled to work in
the UK.

 

2.       We don’t have Vetting SOP’s we follow the process as required in
the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982

 

3.       No, however this is asked on the application form as a
self-disclosure question. Failure to disclose this information or to
provide false information is an offence.

 

4.       No

 

5.       N/A

 

6.       Risks are self-evident through the application process which
adequately mitigates against them.

 

7.       Experienced staff are employed within the licensing team. They
are provided with 1 to 1 training as and when required as a result of new
processes.

 

I would like to draw your attention to the copyright situation in relation
to the material.

 

The council holds the copyright for all of the material provided and it
may be reproduced free of charge in any format or media without requiring
specific permission. This is subject to the material not being used in a
derogatory manner or in a misleading context. The source of the material
must be acknowledged as Fife Council and the title of the document must be
included when being reproduced as part of another publication or service.

 

If you are not satisfied with the way we have handled your request, you
have the right to request a review of the decision. Please write to: Head
of Legal Services, Finance & Corporate Services, Fife House, North Street,
Glenrothes, KY7 5LT or e-mail to [email address]. The law provides
for you to make this request up to 60 working days from when we received
your enquiry or 40 working days from when you receive this correspondence
whichever is the later date. Where the outcome of the review fails to
resolve the matter to your complete satisfaction you have the right to
apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a
decision.www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

 

Fife Council will consider and seek to resolve any request to the Head of
Legal Services that falls outside these time scales.

 

Yours sincerely

 

D Boyack

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