RESEARCHED AUTHORITY
Bradford
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council · Sources checked 13 September 2026
- Driver licensing
- Official route/source found
Council directory and current fee page provide the driver route.
- Vehicle licensing
- Official route/source found
Council directory and current fee page provide the vehicle route.
- Operator licensing
- Official route/source found
Council directory and current fee page provide the operator route.
- Licensing fees
- Official route/source found
Council publishes current driver, vehicle and operator charges.
- Taxi tariff
- Official route/source found
Currently linked council card dated 25 June 2022: tariff 1 (Monday–Saturday 07:00–23:00) starts at £2.50 for 88 metres, then 10p per started 88 metres. Tariff 2 starts at £2.50 for 80 metres then 10p per started 80 metres, applying at night, Sundays/public holidays, specified festive eves and journeys beyond the district. Tariff 3 starts at £3 for 80 metres then 15p per started 80 metres during the printed Christmas/New Year windows. Card waiting figures per minute are 10p/20p/10p for tariffs 1/2/3; wording is ambiguous for tariffs 1/2. Advance off-rank hire supplement £1; fouling £50. The printed date is not independently verified as legal commencement.
- Mandatory qualifications
- Official route/source found
Current evidence confirms driver modular training and the District Awareness module introduced from May 2025.
Withheld or still needing confirmation
- No current official numeric hackney-carriage tariff and effective date were verified.
- The full current modular-training syllabus and pass requirements were not independently verified.
- Waiting wording for tariffs 1/2 says completed seconds 'of part thereof'; calculator should not silently choose rounding.
- Card date is 25 June 2022; current passenger page explicitly links it as latest, but commencement is not separately established.