Select Committee on Deregulation Second Report


ANNEX (continued)

Letter from the Head of Taxi Policy (Branches), Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions to the Clerk of the Committee

You have had a copy of Dr Tudor's letter of 16 January to Pauline Gaunt of our Parliamentary Branch. Attached to it was a letter from the Director, Passenger Services Group of the Office of the Rail Regulator. This gives an up to date assessment of the need for our proposed order relating to private hire vehicles being used for substitute rail services. His conclusion was that the proposal would now have no effect in practice. (You will appreciate that circumstances have changed since we started the procedure for this order.)

We are reviewing this advice with our legal advisers, and may well feel that we should put the matter to our Ministers again. That being so, and since we are anxious not to take the Committee's time unnecessarily, I wonder if you might feel that our appearance before the Committee might best be postponed. Obviously we would aim to put a submission to Ministers quickly.

23 January 1998


 
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