On the 9th April 2013 The Law Commission released an interim statement regards the taxi and private hire trade.

The full report should be available in December 2013.  However, one of the findings that has been released is that the two tier system between taxi's and private hire's should stay the same.

Only taxi's should be allowed to pick passengers up from ranks and be hailed in the street, whilst Private hire vehicles are only able to pick up passengers that are pre-booked through a licensed operator.

Click on the image to read more on The Law Commission website...