B riefing for the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee on PE1960: Formally recognise private hire cars and taxis as modes of public transport, submitted by Edward Grice on behalf of the Scottish Private Hire Association (SPHA) Background There is no statutory definition of “public transport”, although the term “public passenger transport service” is used in statutes including the Transport Act 1985, which defines these as: “all those services on which members of the public rely for getting...