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Freedom of Information request - Night Tube Extension (DLR and Elizabeth Line)

Request ID: FOI-0212-2324
Date published: 17 May 2023

You asked

Dear Transport for London, Please would you be able to provide me with any analysis conducted during the last five years of running the Night Tube on the DLR and/or Elizabeth Line (central section or full service)? Please would you be able to provide any cost / revenue analysis or impact on TfL of introducing night service on the DLR and/or the Elizabeth Line?

We answered

Our ref: FOI-0212-2324
 
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 18 April 2023 asking for information about night services on the DLR and/or the Elizabeth Line.
 
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.  I can confirm that we hold the information you require. You asked: Please would you be able to provide me with any analysis conducted during the last five years of running the Night Tube on the DLR and/or Elizabeth Line (central section or full service)? Please would you be able to provide any cost / revenue analysis or impact on TfL of introducing night service on the DLR and/or the Elizabeth Line?

We confirm that we have conducted high level analysis during the last five years of running night services on the DLR and/or Elizabeth Line, but there are no active and/or funded plans to do so.

In accordance with the FOI Act, we are not obliged to supply some of the costs and financial detail in the analysis documents you have requested which are attached, as it is subject to a statutory exemption to the right of access to information under section 43(2) (Commercial Interests).

In this instance the section 43(2) exemption has been applied as disclosure of this detailed information would or would be likely to prejudice both our commercial interests, as well as those of both MTR and KAD who operate the Elizabeth line and the DLR respectively. To disclose this information would put our internal cost estimates into the public domain which would inform and influence any future tendering exercises and tendering decisions by potential bidders if and when one is undertaken. This would adversely affect the value for money obtained by TfL from its procurement processes. 

The use of this exemption is subject to an assessment of the public interest in relation to the disclosure of the information concerned. We recognise the need for openness and transparency by public authorities, particularly where the expenditure of public money is concerned, but in this instance the public interest in ensuring that we are able to obtain the best value for public money outweighs the general public interest in increasing transparency of our processes

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


Sara Thomas
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London

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