Fenland District Council’s licensing sub-committee said they were “naturally concerned” by this when considering the application for a new private hire licence. He told the sub-committee “that he had previously received penalty points, but these had fallen away”. He admitted that “on several occasions” he had failed to let a different licensing authority know he had received penalty points, breaching the requirements of his private hire licence. They said their own policy states a private hire licence can be given to a driver with penalty points – but it is left to the sub-committee’s discretion. They concluded that he was “not fit and proper to hold a licence” and refused his request.