Euro Contracts Services Limited in Slough has had its gangmasters licence revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA).

The moves comes after an initial warning to correctly licence minibuses was ignored, and claims that the Public Service Vehicle (PSV) licence had been applied for were found to be untrue.

While not having the correct PSV licence is not grounds to revoke the licence on its own, the failure to get the licence after a warning and the claim that a PSV licence had been applied for when further investigation proved this was not the case led to the revocation.

Gill Sage, the appointed person who heard the appeal, said: “At the time of revocation, the appellant had failed to comply with the requirement to produce a PSV operator’s licence within the deadline that had expired on September 23. At that date, the appellant could produce no evidence of compliance, despite reminders being sent on July 8 and 22 and on October 15, 2008 and further requests for information on October 27 and the final letter requesting information on November 10. Despite all these reminders, the appellant failed to produce the relevant PSV or PCV documentation.”

Paul Whitehouse, GLA chairman, said: “We gave this gangmaster every chance to comply with the law. If that opportunity is not taken we have no choice but to revoke the licence.”