The Taxi & General Licensing Sub-Committee of West Northamptonshire Council was scheduled to convene on 3 December 2025, to consider several applications for private hire driver licences. Councillor Adrian Cartwright, Councillor Rosie Humphreys, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group, and Councillor Debra King were listed as the members of the sub-committee. The meeting was to be held at One Angel Square, Angel Street, Northampton.

Exclusion of Press and Public

The agenda for the meeting of the Taxi & General Licensing Sub-Committee included a recommendation to exclude the press and public from the discussion of the following items. The reason given was that the reports contained exempt information, as defined in paragraph 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972¹, relating to individuals.

That under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that, if the public and press were present, it would be likely that exempt information falling under the provisions of Schedule 12A, Part I, Paragraph 1 would be disclosed to them, and that in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Applications for Private Hire Driver's Licences

The Taxi & General Licensing Sub-Committee was scheduled to consider three applications for new private hire driver's licences. These were listed on the agenda as items 4, 5, and 6. The agenda and reports pack indicated that the details of these applications were contained in restricted documents, citing paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.