Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the need to ease the potential additional financial burden on the private hire and taxi industry resulting from new industry standards.

A full impact assessment was published alongside the Statutory Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Standards in July 2020. This found that if the full cost of the Standards was passed on to drivers, the increased cost would be £62.24 per driver per year which would equate to a three pence increase per fare.