Request ID: FOI-0017-2324 Date published: 26 April 2023
You asked
Dear Transport for London,
I am writing to you, pursuant to s.1 the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the act), to request the following information from Transport for London.
Pursuant to s.1(a) of the act, you are required to confirm if the requested information, is held by London Borough of Lewisham Council (“the duty to confirm or deny”)
Pursuant to s.1(b) of the act, you are required to communicate the requested information to me.
Current ULEZ
1. Please provide me with a list of all roads within London that are exempt from the current ULEZ scheme.
2. Please provide me with the reason why each road is exempt.
Expanded ULEZ
1. Please provide me with a list of all roads within London that will be exempt from the expanded ULEZ scheme, when it is introduced later in 2023.
2. Please provide me with the reason why each road is exempt.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined, I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-0015-2223 and FOI-0017-2324 Thank you for your requests received by Transport for London (TfL) on 1st and 2nd April 2023 asking for information about the ULEZ expansion. Your requests have been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. Under case reference FOI-0015-2324 you asked: “When speaking to the Sunday Times, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: “It’s the poorest Londoners, who are least likely to own cars, who suffer the worst consequences of bad-quality of air." At the last Mayor's Question Time of this session, Neil Garratt asked the Mayor to provide the data upon which this statement and claim was based. Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, please provide me with data used by Mayor, when making this claim.” The source of the data on the poorest Londoners suffering the worse consequences from air pollution is the report ‘Air Pollution and Inequalities in London: 2019’ which was published in October 2021. A copy can be found on the Greater London Authority website here: https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-and-strategies/environment-and-climate-change/environment-publications/air-pollution-and-inequalities-london-2019 The statistic on car ownership of Londoners on lower incomes is from the Travel in London report issue 12, published on the TfL website here: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-london-report-12.pdf. - see page 72, under “Car ownership and household income”. This shows that households with lower incomes are less likely to own a car. Under case reference FOI-0017-2324 you asked: “Current ULEZ 1. Please provide me with a list of all roads within London that are exempt from the current ULEZ scheme. 2. Please provide me with the reason why each road is exempt. Expanded ULEZ 1. Please provide me with a list of all roads within London that will be exempt from the expanded ULEZ scheme, when it is introduced later in 2023. 2. Please provide me with the reason why each road is exempt.” Roads are not “exempt” from the ULEZ scheme. They are either included within the defined boundaries or they are not. For the current scheme, the map of the zone can be found on our website here: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/ulez-where-and-when The following page of our website provides further details on roads at the edge of the boundary: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/ulez-boundary-description In regard to the expansion from August 2023, please see the following response to a previous request on the same subject: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-information/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-1181-2223 As you can see, the expanded zone will mirror the current Low Emission Zone, a map of which can be seen here: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/low-emission-zone/about-the-lez If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me. Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed. Yours sincerely, David Wells FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
