PETITIONRejectedPetition · petition.parliament.uk

Protect Inverclyde. Keep full criminal checks for all taxi licence applicants.

The UK Government should require Invrrclyde, and local authorities in Scotland to maintain full overseas criminal record checks for all taxi and private hire driver applicants who were born outside the UK or have lived abroad for 6 months or more, and prevent councils from removing these safeguards.

Last fetched 18 May 2026 · petition.parliament.uk

Signatures

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Government response threshold (10,000) · 6/10,000

Debate threshold (100,000) · 6/100,000

Petition progress2 events · Nov 2025 – Jan 2026

06 JAN 2026
Petition rejected
irrelevant
Your petition is about something that the Scottish Government is responsible for. That means that the UK Government and Parliament can't look into it. We also can’t accept petitions that request action at a local level. The Scottish Parliament has its own Public Petitions Committee. If you'd like to send your petition to the Scottish Parliament, you can find out more here: https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/committees/current-and-previous-committees/session-6-citizen-participation-and-public-petitions-committee
27 NOV 2025
Petition created

Background

I want this because removing overseas criminal checks puts public safety at risk. If someone has lived abroad for years, the council would have no way to see serious offences committed elsewhere. Local drivers face strict vetting and every applicant should meet the same standard. Families, vulnerable people and the wider community deserve to know that anyone licensed to drive the public has been fully checked.