Scottish Transport Statistics: No 27 - 2008 Edition

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Table 1.4 Taxi and private hire cars and drivers licensed by local authority area, 2008

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

980

207

1,187

1,346

2

1,348

393

Aberdeenshire

501

322

823

1,745

56

1,801

39

Angus

149

69

218

277

117

394

11

Argyll & Bute

195

48

243

195

48

243

..

Clackmannanshire

40

76

116

173

21

194

8

Dumfries & Galloway

170

116

286

553

47

600

4

Dundee City

580

174

754

1,803

46

1,849

198

East Ayrshire

121

64

185

572

41

613

28

East Dunbartonshire

319

354

673

891

23

914

..

East Lothian

135

176

311

..

..

400

135

East Renfrewshire

77

465

542

122

497

619

9

Edinburgh, City of

1,266

829

2,095

3,714

823

4,537

1,266

Eilean Siar

101

23

124

208

17

225

-

Falkirk

465

69

534

609

79

688

59

Fife

473

338

811

..

..

1,858

..

Glasgow, City of

1,430

2,805

4,235

3,097

3,426

6,523

1,430

Highland

591

129

720

913

147

1,060

18

Inverclyde

243

129

372

..

..

906

20

Midlothian

52

132

184

144

342

486

52

Moray

178

32

210

617

21

638

6

North Ayrshire

220

78

298

723

10

733

35

North Lanarkshire

495

1,209

1,704

1,532

1,367

2,899

140

Orkney Islands

23

11

34

96

3

99

1

Perth & Kinross

101

199

300

..

..

753

11

Renfrewshire

215

870

1,085

540

941

1,481

176

Scottish Borders

222

91

313

386

51

437

8

Shetland Islands

72

58

130

303

59

362

2

South Ayrshire

126

177

303

483

191

674

126

South Lanarkshire

331

1,180

1,511

733

1,555

2,288

22

Stirling

68

117

185

338

37

375

28

West Dunbartonshire

336

19

355

..

..

550

173

West Lothian

166

284

450

359

552

911

63

Scotland

10,441

10,850

21,291

22,472

10,519

37,458

4,461

Source: Scottish Government - Not National Statistics

Page updated: Monday, December 22, 2008