RESEARCHED AUTHORITY
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes Council · Sources checked 13 September 2026
- Driver licensing
- Official route/source found
Apply online for a combined driver licence. Current FAQ requires full UK licence held 12 months, Group 2 medical dated within one calendar month, and overseas criminal-record evidence for residence of six months or more in the past 20 years.
- Vehicle licensing
- Official route/source found
Current guide sets age ceilings: electric unlimited,hybrid14years,petrol13,diesel12. Vehicles normally need four doors,right-hand drive,four-to-eight belted passenger seats; electric/hybrid exempt from engine-power minima. MOT is required at one year or over500miles and must be within31days of application or renewal expiry. Insurance must already be valid when applying. Provide V5pages1–2 or purchase invoice; keeper slip alone is insufficient. Proprietors need driver enhanced-DBS Update evidence or Basic DBS within31days,including company director/manager. Apply online and pay after acceptance; plate posting normally follows within1–3workingdays. Advisory repairs are requested.
- Operator licensing
- Official route/source found
The 2026 policy requires non-driver operator applicants' Basic DBS within one month (31 days), annual criminal-record review and annual Basic disclosures for directors/partners. Overseas criminal-record equivalents are needed where applicants lack ten continuous UK-residence years or spent over three months abroad in the preceding ten years. Operators must maintain booking/dispatch staff registers, inspect staff Basic disclosures and have an ex-offender employment policy. Public-access premises require appropriate public liability insurance. Officers may require a data-storage policy and operator knowledge test. The application fee must be paid; current planning permission or lawful-development requirements for the operating address remain the applicant's responsibility.
- Licensing fees
- Official route/source found
Milton Keynes publishes a 2026/27 schedule effective 1 April 2026. A combined driver licence is £305 initially and £285.50 on renewal for three years. Private-hire vehicle grant/renewal is £390/£384; hackney-carriage vehicle grant/renewal is £394.50/£386.50. Private-hire operator annual grant bands are £424 (1–4 vehicles), £565 (5–10), £1,130 (11–50) and £1,696.50 (50+); five-year grant bands are £1,272, £1,696.50, £3,391 and £5,085.50. The page separately lists renewal bands and ancillary charges, including safeguarding training £54.50. The council's 2026 policy records that the 3.8% driver increase and Executive-approved vehicle/operator increase were approved through the council's 2025/26 decision process.
- Taxi tariff
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
Official June2025 report confirms fare increase approved 1April2025. Advertised schedule: T1 Mon–Sat06–22 £3.80 first201m/40s;25p per subsequent201m until3218m, then161m, or40s. T2 nights/Sundays/bank holidays £4.60 first161m/40s;23p per161m until3218m, then133m, or40s. Unchanged festive T3 £6.60 first201m/40s;22p per100m until3218m then108m, or40s; periods24December22–27December06 and31December22–1January06. Advert T4 for5+ includes first mile£6, miles2–3£4/mile then£3/mile; consultation paraphrase differs, so final card needed. Extras46p each passenger above two and luggage compartment, soiling£84. Approval date is not automatically commencement.
- Mandatory qualifications
- Official route/source found
A relevant practical taxi-driving assessment pass certificate is required. Full knowledge and safeguarding criteria remain in the policy/new-driver guide.
Withheld or still needing confirmation
- Full training, vehicle/operator, fees and tariffs not extracted.
- The official page contains the complete detailed renewal and ancillary schedule; the summary highlights the main application fees rather than reproducing every line.
- Preserve prior verified fields.
- Preserve other verified fields. Current numeric operator fees and exhaustive conditions not reverified.
- Final issued card/commencement not recovered. T4 first-mile wording conflicts across consultation and notice. Retain approved-reported numeric evidence with these limits; combined time/distance not calculator-ready.
- Current fees and full technical exceptions not reverified. Preserve previous fields.