RESEARCHED AUTHORITY
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough Council · Sources checked 13 September 2026
- Driver licensing
- Official route/source found
Current council hub routes to driver, vehicle and private hire operator licensing guidance. Publishes current driver, hackney carriage/private hire vehicle, testing, DBS and private hire operator fees.
- Vehicle licensing
- Official route/source found
Current council hub routes to driver, vehicle and private hire operator licensing guidance. Publishes current driver, hackney carriage/private hire vehicle, testing, DBS and private hire operator fees.
- Operator licensing
- Official route/source found
Current council hub routes to driver, vehicle and private hire operator licensing guidance. Publishes current driver, hackney carriage/private hire vehicle, testing, DBS and private hire operator fees.
- Licensing fees
- Official route/source found
Publishes current driver, hackney carriage/private hire vehicle, testing, DBS and private hire operator fees. Private hire operator fees are listed separately for one- and five-year grants and renewals.
- Taxi tariff
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
PHTM's September 2026 trade comparison reports £5.60 for a two-mile tariff-1 journey in Middlesbrough. This is a secondary benchmark only, not a complete meter tariff. The council's dated 2018 policy says the separate fare table sets maximums, lower fares may be negotiated, and an out-of-area higher fare requires advance agreement; it explicitly does not include the numeric current card. No night or waiting price is inferred from the daytime benchmark.
- Mandatory qualifications
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
Both hackney and private hire applicants must complete approved disability-awareness training through JD Training Solutions or Greatest Expectations; an existing Level 2 BTEC in taxi/private-hire passenger transport exempts this course. The council knowledge test covers literacy/numeracy, taxi rules, Highway Code and local roads/landmarks; failure of literacy or numeracy fails the test overall. Group 2 medical fitness must be certified by a doctor with full medical records. Criminal-record and right-to-work checks also apply, with overseas good-conduct evidence where the applicant has not resided in the UK for the past five years. This confirms specific current application requirements, not a complete account of every training condition.
Withheld or still needing confirmation
- No current official numeric hackney carriage tariff verified in this sprint.
- Current practical assessment and safeguarding/refresher details remain to be reconciled with the application process.
- Full current official fare card, flag/included distance, pulses, waiting, time bands and effective date remain unverified.
- Benchmark cannot support an arbitrary-distance calculator or establish complete tariff coverage.