Image credit: HMRC A school transport operator whose director was jailed after withholding hundreds of thousands of pounds in VAT has been handed a confiscation order worth more than £1.5million. Berkshire Education Travel Ltd was ordered at Reading Crown Court on Monday 14 September to pay £1,514,056.71, according to information supplied by HM Revenue and Customs. The company has been given three months to pay the confiscation order. The financial recovery action follows the

Greater Manchester has launched details of a new £2 million Private Hire Vehicle Support Fund, offering eligible locally licensed PHV owners grants of up to £2,500 towards replacing vehicles that fail to meet required emissions standards. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) scheme is aimed specifically at vehicles licensed by one of the city region’s ten licensing authorities. Eligible vehicle licence holders will be invited by email to apply through a dedicated

Taxi and private hire complaints are being recorded at sharply different rates across England’s licensing authorities, with new Department for Transport (DfT) figures showing some comparatively small licensing areas receiving hundreds or even thousands of complaints while the country’s biggest licensing centres report much lower complaint-to-vehicle ratios. The figures, collected for the Department for Transport’s 2026 taxi and private hire vehicle statistics, show London rec