A hospital patient in my constituency who had ordered a minicab to take her home was sent home in her nightie to an empty house.
I suggest that minicab operators should be required to obtain planning permission for their offices before they begin operating.
The issue of safety in minicabs is a serious and emotive one.
People use minicabs because there is a dearth or inadequacy of other types of transport.
This will cause a difference in fare structure, and people with minicabs will be able to charge whatever they like.
The simple existence of a criminal record should not exclude individuals from being minicab drivers.
We need a fair decision on taxis and minicabs.
Clauses 30 and 31 are important provisions about signs and advertising, designed to prevent confusion—deliberate or otherwise—between minicabs and taxis.
