Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 105341

Taxis: Fees and Charges

Tabled: 13 January 2026
Answered: 20 January 2026

Question

Mrs Elsie Blundell

LabourHeywood and Middleton North

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to take steps to regulate the service fee charges (commission) charged by large national PHV operators that they draw from their drivers' journeys.

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
Subject to any obligations under employment law, the commercial terms under which drivers and operators contract are a matter for those parties.