§ The Minister for Transport (Mr. John Spellar)Following a consultation exercise. I have decided to agree to the request from Plymouth City Council to make regulations which would enable (i) London licensed private hire operators to sub-contract bookings to Plymouth private hire operators; (ii) a Plymouth licensed private hire operator who accepts in Plymouth a hiring which starts in London, to use a Plymouth licensed private hire vehicle for that hiring; and (iii) a Plymouth licensed private hire operator who accepts in Plymouth a hiring which starts in London, to use a Plymouth licensed private hire driver for that hiring.
This decision will be effected by means of transitional regulations made under section 37 of the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998.
A decision note, containing a summary of responses and setting out my decision, has been placed in the Library.