PSV Taxi-Cab badges (FOI)

​​​​​​Request

A

How many taxi drivers have had their Public Service Vehicle​ (PSV) Taxi Cab Badge permanently removed by Driver and ​​Vehicle Servie (DVS) or The Minister in the last year?

B

How many taxi drivers have had their PSV Taxi Cab Badge permanently removed by DVS ot the Minister in the last 12 months?

C

How many owners of recognised taxi cab companies (as listed on the Gov.je website) are currently in prison?

Response

A and B

There have not been any permanent removals of any PSV Taxi-Cab Badges or PSV Taxi-Cab Badge within the last twelve months.

C

We can neither confirm nor deny whether the requested information is held and Article 10(2) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Article applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding Information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information, it must inform the applicant accordingly.

(2) If a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority and –

(a) the information is absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information; or

(b) if the authority does not hold the information, the information would be absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information if it had held it, the authority may refuse to inform the applicant whether or not it holds the information if it is satisfied that, in all the circumstances of the case, it is in the public interest to do so.​