FOI5061 Taxi licensing

Taxi licensing

Request:
 

I am seeking the details (make, model and the vehicles registration number plate) of all 
vehicles that currently are/have been licensed as a taxi, either as a private hire or a 
hackney carriage, within your council across the last 10 years if possible (looking at dates 
11/05/2012 - present 11/05/2022).
 

Response:

Please find attached a list of all currently licensed Hackney Carriages and Private 
Hire Vehicles with the following information: -
 

a. Vehicle make and model
Vehicle Registration Numbers are not being supplied after applying section 40(2) of 
the Freedom of Information Act (personal data) following the ICO decision on the 8 
March 2019
 

Vehicle Registration Numbers are exempt from disclosure under section 40(2) of 
the Freedom of Information Act (personal data) following the ICO decision 
Reference, FS50793373, link below:
https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decisionnotices/2019/2614512/fs50793373.pdf
 

To extract the information requested regarding the make and model of all vehicles 
licensed in the past 10 years, the records would need to be searched individually. 
There is currently no means of extracting this information automatically. Each 
individual file will need to be examined. Therefore, this part of the request is 
refused under s12 (1) Freedom of Information Act 2000, since the cost of complying 
would exceed the appropriate limit set out in the Freedom of Information and Data 
Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004