Taxi-Cab vehicle details (FOI)

​Request

Please supply, if possible, in Excel format the following information

A

Hackney Cabs:  Plate Number, Registration Number, Vehicle Type: ie Peugeot Expert Operator

 B

Private Hire Vehicles: Plate Number Registration Number Vehicle Type: ie Ford Tourneo Operator

Response

A and  B

As part of the Taxi Reform Programme we are currently in the process of transitioning to a single tier Taxi-Cab system.

The attached spreadsheet details the vehicle type and make of vehicles currently licenced to operate as taxi-cabs.

Taxi-Cab makes

Operator, registration and plate number information is linked to individual persons and as such this information is exempt under Article 25 (personal data) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

Article applied

Article 25 Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018[7]; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.[8]

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018[9] would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.[10]