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Scottish Transport Statistics: No 26 - 2007 Edition

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Table 1.4 Taxi and private hire cars and drivers licensed by local authority area, 2007

Council

Taxi
vehicles
currently
licensed

Private
hire cars
currently
licensed

Total
vehicles
licensed

Taxi
driver
licences

Private
hire
driver
licences

Total
drivers
licensed

Number of
wheelchair
accessible
taxis

Aberdeen City

939

175

1,114

1,286

2

1,288

350

Aberdeenshire

438

274

712

1,561

63

1,624

26

Angus

159

65

224

292

120

412

11

Argyll & Bute

193

38

231

473

29

502

..

Clackmannanshire

40

76

116

179

32

211

4

Dumfries & Galloway

176

109

285

560

59

619

2

Dundee City

651

70

721

1,657

42

1,699

205

East Ayrshire

112

94

206

450

45

495

22

East Dunbartonshire

389

366

755

870

25

895

54

East Lothian

120

154

274

424

-

424

120

East Renfrewshire

77

463

540

125

500

625

3

Edinburgh, City of

1,260

834

2,094

3,708

1,891

5,599

1,260

Eilean Siar

96

25

121

181

30

211

-

Falkirk

468

58

526

626

66

692

48

Fife

473

337

810

..

..

1,850

45

Glasgow, City of

1,430

2,773

4,203

3,120

3,600

6,720

1,430

Highland

608

113

721

921

153

1,074

19

Inverclyde

236

122

358

892

-

892

13

Midlothian

52

123

175

140

299

439

52

Moray

160

27

187

602

21

623

8

North Ayrshire

220

95

315

762

13

775

25

North Lanarkshire

495

1,245

1,740

1,578

1,349

2,927

137

Orkney Islands

20

10

30

103

1

104

1

Perth & Kinross

93

282

375

731

-

731

11

Renfrewshire

216

862

1,078

545

893

1,438

162

Scottish Borders

206

93

299

350

71

421

14

Shetland Islands

73

54

127

307

62

369

2

South Ayrshire

111

183

294

498

154

652

111

South Lanarkshire

323

1,111

1,434

724

1,443

2,167

12

Stirling

66

119

185

323

25

348

27

West Dunbartonshire

336

24

360

553

-

553

169

West Lothian

166

259

425

344

544

888

73

Scotland

10,402

10,633

21,035

24,885

11,532

38,267

4,416

* Counting "not available" as "zero", so these figures may be under-estimates, and the sum of "taxi driver licences" plus "private hire driver licences" is less than "total drivers licenced".

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