Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on which licensing authorities (a) require both an enhanced DBS check for all (i) taxi drivers and (ii) private hire drivers and (b) check the barred list for both (i) taxi drivers and (ii) private hire drivers in the licensing process.
The Department for Transport conducts an annual survey of taxi and private hire vehicle licensing authorities; this includes information on CCTV, Disclosure and Barring Service checks and training requirements, which can be found in TAXI0106:
The complete results from the 2018 survey are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/taxi-and-private-hire-vehicle-statistics-england-2018.