Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Customer and Regulatory Services

RESOLVED THAT:

1.    Following consultation and engagement, the policy sections outlined in paragraphs 4.3.1 to 4.3.3 be adopted with immediate effect;

2.    The next steps and further consultation outlined in paragraph 4 of the report be adopted.

The Cabinet Member Customer and Regulatory Services noted that a non-substantive amendment to the recommendations was needed, as the paragraph numbers had changed slightly during redrafting. The first recommendation should have referred to 4.3.1 to 4.3.3 rather than 3.3.1 to 3.3.3, and in the covering report rather than Appendix 3, while the second recommendation referred to the next steps in part 4 instead.

He explained that this policy was the result of their ongoing work to get to a taxi fleet that was both accessible to those with disabilities and on track to meet their climate change commitments by 2030. In order to ensure that they were listening carefully to those affected, they were undertaking extensive consultation, but some steps needed to be taken in the short term. These were namely removing the most polluting vehicles from the fleet and clarifying a particular technical detail about the exceptional circumstances in which ‘like for like’ replacement vehicles could be allowed. He stressed that they were not finalising the complete policy today, but rather taking a few immediate and necessary steps.

The Leader moved to the vote, where it was unanimously:

RESOLVED THAT:

1.    Following consultation and engagement, the policy sections outlined in paragraphs 4.3.1 to 4.3.3 be adopted with immediate effect;

2.    The next steps and further consultation outlined in paragraph 4 of the report be adopted.