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The Green Party candidate for Nether Edge and Sharrow, Maroof Raouf, has called on Sheffield City Council to provide more support for taxi drivers in the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Drivers within the city have already been provided with two \u00a3500 grants to compensate for loss of income throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, but Mr Raouf has urged the Council to offer a third.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI am not saying that work has not picked up, work is slowly but surely picking up, but taxi drivers are still at around 50% of their earning capacity.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther councils have given that third payment of \u00a3500. Barnsley are a much smaller council than Sheffield and have been able to give their drivers \u00a3500, why can\u2019t Sheffield?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council have provided three grant payments of \u00a3500, but Sheffield City Council have only offered two.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Mr Raouf has been alarmed by conversations held with drivers within his constituency, some of which have taken a significant financial hit.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI\u2019ve got drivers in my constituency who are struggling to pay for food for their children.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe longer Sheffield City Council leave it, the longer these children are going hungry. It\u2019s like they are encouraging children to go hungry, they\u2019re encouraging poverty to implement itself within the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Council have already provided \u00a31,000 in grant money to drivers, but the Green candidate claimed the support was the result of relentless campaigning from drivers and their representatives.<\/p>\n

Mr Raouf said: \u201cSheffield City Council did pay two grants of \u00a3500 out of their discretionary fund that they had, but that was through a lot of hard work from taxi drivers and representatives of taxi drivers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey really had to push for that. It was quite a shame that Sheffield City Council did not see the need for taxi drivers to receive any funds to support them in their time of need.\u201d<\/p>\n

A statement provided by Sheffield City Council read: \u201cSupport for taxi drivers was identified as one the first sectors to be provided discretionary grant funding through Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) and a scheme was collectively agreed at a Sheffield City Region level in November 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Sheffield more than 2,500 taxi drivers each received two payments of \u00a3500 as part of the agreed SCR scheme.<\/p>\n

“Local authorities have the discretion to support businesses with their own allocation of ARG funding.<\/p>\n

“It is understood Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council decided to use some of their allocation of ARG to support taxi drivers. Sheffield City Council was not in a position to provide an additional grant from the ARG allocation as its use was already agreed and a third payment of \u00a3500 to more than 2,500 drivers would have exceeded the ARG budget.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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