318 licensing areas · checked by hand
Every licensing authority in the UK sets its own driver, vehicle and operator licence fees. This table puts them side by side. It covers 318 licensing areas across England, Wales and Scotland, each fee checked one at a time against that council's own published figures and honestly marked where a council doesn't publish one. Vehicle, operator and driver counts come from the Department for Transport's own statistics and cover England and Wales only, so Scottish rows show fees but no counts. Tap any council name for its own page.
| Council | Driver licence | Vehicle licence | Operator licence | Vehicles licensed | Drivers licensed | Source |
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Fees (driver/vehicle/operator licence columns) are hand-checked against each council's own page, PDF, or committee decision — currently 318 licensing areas, covering every licensing authority in England, Wales and Scotland bar five. Those five were checked repeatedly and genuinely skipped rather than filled in with a guess: Doncaster, 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. Scotland works differently: councils license under the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, the two vehicle types are taxi and private hire car, and the third licence is a booking office licence rather than an operator licence. Confusingly, many Scottish councils also use the word "operator" to mean the vehicle licence — where that happens the entry says so.
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 four councils appear in the table with official counts but no fee: Doncaster, Ipswich, South Staffordshire and Wiltshire, for the reasons above. Scotland isn't in this particular release, so Scottish councils only appear here if a fee was separately sourced.
Each of the 318 areas has its own page, with the driver, vehicle and operator fees, what is charged on top, and the council’s own source.
AAberdeen Aberdeenshire Adur Amber Valley Angus Argyll and Bute Arun Ashfield Ashford
BBabergh Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Birmingham Blaby Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Blaenau Gwent Bolsover Bolton Boston Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Bracknell Forest Bradford Braintree Breckland Brentwood Bridgend Brighton and Hove Bristol Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury
CCaerphilly Calderdale Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Castle Point Central Bedfordshire Ceredigion Charnwood Chelmsford Cheltenham Cherwell Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley Clackmannanshire Colchester Conwy Cornwall Cotswold Coventry Crawley Cumberland
DDacorum Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Dales Dorset Dover Dudley Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Durham
EEast Ayrshire East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dunbartonshire East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Lothian East Renfrewshire East Riding of Yorkshire East Staffordshire East Suffolk Eastbourne Eastleigh Eden Edinburgh Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter
FFalkirk Fareham Fenland Fife Flintshire Folkestone and Hythe Forest of Dean Fylde
GGateshead Gedling Glasgow Gloucester Gosport Gravesham Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwynedd
HHalton Harborough Harlow Hart Hartlepool Hastings Havant Herefordshire, County of Hertsmere High Peak Highland Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Hull Huntingdonshire Hyndburn
IInverclyde Isle of Anglesey Isle of Wight
KKing's Lynn and West Norfolk Kirklees Knowsley
LLancaster Leeds Leicester Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Liverpool London (TfL) Luton
MMaidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Manchester Mansfield Medway Melton Mendip Merthyr Tydfil Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Middlesbrough Midlothian Milton Keynes Mole Valley Monmouthshire Moray
NNa h-Eileanan Siar Neath Port Talbot New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle Newcastle-under-Lyme Newport North Ayrshire North Devon North East Derbyshire North East Lincolnshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Lanarkshire North Lincolnshire North Norfolk North Northamptonshire North Somerset North Tyneside North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Yorkshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nuneaton and Bedworth
OOadby and Wigston Oldham Orkney Islands Oxford
PPembrokeshire Pendle Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Powys Preston
RReading Redcar and Cleveland Redditch Reigate and Banstead Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taf Ribble Valley Rochdale Rochford Rossendale Rother Rotherham Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Rutland
SSalford Sandwell Scottish Borders Sedgemoor Sefton Sevenoaks Sheffield Shetland Islands Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset West and Taunton South Ayrshire South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Gloucestershire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Lanarkshire South Norfolk South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Somerset South Tyneside Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spelthorne St Albans St. Helens Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Sunderland Surrey Heath Swale Swansea Swindon
TTameside Tamworth Tandridge Teignbridge Telford and Wrekin Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Torfaen Torridge Trafford Tunbridge Wells
VVale of Glamorgan Vale of White Horse
WWakefield Walsall Warrington Warwick Watford Waverley Wealden Welwyn Hatfield West Berkshire West Devon West Dunbartonshire West Lancashire West Lindsey West Lothian West Northamptonshire West Oxfordshire West Suffolk Wigan Winchester Windsor and Maidenhead Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worthing Wrexham Wychavon Wyre Wyre Forest
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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.
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