New rules forcing private-hire drivers in London to prove their English language skills are set for a rethink.
The rules would have forced them to pay £180 for a written essay and speaking test by July 16 this year, unless they could produce GCSE certificates proving their command of English.
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Private-hire drivers unable to pass the test or produce certificates would have been banned from working as minicab drivers in the capital.
Today Transport for London said the deadline for drivers to prove their grasp of English had been extended until April 30 next year.
TfL said it would also now review the regulations, to “make satisfying the requirement as simple as possible”.
The announcement came after a crunch meeting between the Licensed Private Hire Car Association and Mayor Sadiq Khan yesterday.
TfL officials also met representatives of the British Dyslexia Association, which had warned that some private-hire drivers would find it “impossible” to pass the new test.
Steve Wright, the hire car association’s chairman, said that “tens of thousands” of drivers, including those with reading and writing difficulties and from ethnic backgrounds, had feared they would lose their jobs.
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