Lists of Accessible Taxis under S167 Equality Act 2010

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Dear Lichfield 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

Generic - FOI, Lichfield District Council

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Generic - FOI, Lichfield District Council

Dear Mr Paulley

We have today received a copy of the below e'mail, please note that this request is identical to the one you sent in last week received on 19th April. Under FOI we have 20 working days to respond to your request and currently colleagues are looking into this, and you should receive your response by 18th May 2017

Regards

Generic FOI

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Dear Generic - FOI,

Thank you.

I'm really confused. I have no record of having sent a FOI request on this matter to Lichfield District Council before. I mistakenly sent one to Lichfield City Council before realising they aren't the licensing body, you are. Did they forward it on or something? They didn't say they did do so; and I have no record of having done so. Or do you provide licensing support for more than one council?

I don't know what's happened.

Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Doug Paulley

Generic - FOI, Lichfield District Council

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Dear Lichfield District Council,

Thank you. I shall await your response to my duplicate request, and I apologise for my confusion.

Yours faithfully,

Doug Paulley

Generic - FOI, Lichfield District Council

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