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Licence fee & volume comparison by council

England and Wales's ~300 licensing authorities each set their own driver, vehicle, and operator licence fees — and nobody's put them in one searchable table until now. Fee figures are checked one council at a time and honestly marked when missing. Vehicle, operator, and driver counts come from the Department for Transport's own official statistics, covering essentially every authority in England and Wales.

CouncilDriver licenceVehicle licenceOperator licenceVehicles licensedDrivers licensedSource

Two different kinds of number here

Fees (driver/vehicle/operator licence columns) are hand-checked against each council's own page, PDF, or committee decision — currently 288 councils — every licensing authority in England and Wales bar six, plus Dundee, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Six were checked repeatedly and genuinely skipped rather than filled in with a guess: Doncaster, Glasgow, Ipswich and Wiltshire block automated access or publish only years-stale figures, while South Staffordshire (administered by City of Wolverhampton since 2022) and Eden (now Westmorland and Furness) publish no taxi fee figures anywhere at all.

Vehicles/drivers licensed come from a single official source: the Department for Transport's TAXI0113 statistical release, snapshot as at 2024, covering 290 licensing authorities across England and Wales in one go. That's why this table now lists far more councils than have a checked fee yet — the count is real and official even where the fee isn't verified. Scotland isn't in this particular release, so Scottish councils only appear here if a fee was separately sourced.

Fees change and this list won't always catch it the same day — always confirm the current fee directly with your own licensing authority before budgeting around it. Each row links to where its figures came from.