Request 101004071855

1. For each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, the number of applications for taxi driver, private hire driver, taxi operator, and private hire operator licences (new and renewal) where Police Scotland or the Chief Constable lodged a formal objection.

2. For each of those years, of the applications in (1), the number that ended as:
a) granted (including grant with conditions or a warning)
b) refused
c) deferred, continued, or not decided in that year
d) withdrawn by the applicant
e) Police withdrew the objection before the decision