Taxis: Insurance

(asked on 15th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to add the type of insurance held to the information displayed when a registration number is entered into the Motor Insurance Database, so that passengers using, or firms employing, minicabs, can check that those cabs are properly insured.


Answered by
Baroness Sugg Portrait
Baroness Sugg
This question was answered on 29th January 2019

The Motor Insurance Database (MID) is owned and managed by the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB). The information contained within the database is provided by the motor insurance industry. The Government has no plans to propose changes to the MID.

The MID already contains data fields to capture and display information about the type of use that the vehicle is insured against. For example Social, Domestic and Pleasure purposes or for Hire and Reward. However, in some instances this data is not uploaded to the MID by the insurance company, and instead one is referred to the insurance company for specific details. This information is not publicly available but is available to the Police for insurance enforcement purposes. Passengers and firms employing minicabs do not have the right to check insurance against the MID.

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