Meanwhile, Transport Minister Guy de Faye has vowed to halt practices which allow drivers with what are effectively States-owned licence plates to make tens of thousands of pounds by renting them out to others.
One cab driver, Sean Crick, said that he had paid about £90,000 over the last decade to rent a plate.
Deputy de Faye said that the current system was a ‘complete and utter inefficient shambles’.
A consultation process was now under way to find a new system.
