Izzy Lepone 04 September 2025

Mayor calls for ‘decisive action’ on taxi licensing

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The Mayoral Council meeting will today hear mayor Andy Burnham call for an end to the ‘out of area’ licensing of taxis.

Greater Manchester Andy Burnham is due to urge senior Government ministers to amend the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill to improve taxi licensing issues.

Arguing that the current taxi system is ‘broken’, Mr Burnham will call for ‘urgent’ reforms to ensure greater ‘local accountability’ and licensing enforcement powers.

The move follows the April rollout of the Greater Manchester campaign titled ‘Backing our taxis: Local. Licensed. Trusted’, which aims to achieve higher safety standards for taxis in the area, supported by MPs such as James Frith and Josh Simons.

Mr Burnham said the Bill ‘provides an opportunity for decisive action to be taken by the Government’.

‘Avoiding unnecessary delay and acting quickly to address out-of-area licensing will allow us to restore trust and raise standards through a system that is safe, fair, and locally controlled’, he added.

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