Request ID: FOI-0249-2324 Date published: 25 May 2023
You asked
Please provide a breakdown of each London Underground trains depot overtime cost for Trains Managers for the financial years 2019 and 2020, thanks.
We answered
Our Ref: FOI-0249-2324
Thank you for your request received on 25 April 2023 asking for information about the cost of overtime for train managers.
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 do hold the information you require.
We rely on our workforce to help ensure that journeys across all forms of transport can happen reliably and safely. In some roles, we use overtime to ensure that we can flexibly respond to changing demands . Use of a limited amount of overtime helps us to deliver this as efficiently as possible. During the pandemic, keeping the London Underground network running for key workers was a priority. Our ability to maintain even a reduced service was greatly impacted by the pandemic with members of staff having to isolate, in addition to a limited ability to recruit and train new staff. Overtime was used to keep our services running safely and reliably.
You asked:
Please provide a breakdown of each London Underground trains depot overtime cost for Trains Managers for the financial years 2019 and 2020, thanks.
Please see attached the overtime payment amounts for each depot as requested, for anyone in a Train Manager job (this includes those who may be on secondment to those roles). The payments relate to those made for the time period, so exclude amounts paid in the time period for overtime worked outside the time period (e.g. payments in arrears). We have provided the information from 2018/19 – 2020/21 to cover the period requested.
Please note that in accordance with TfL’s obligations under Data Protection legislation, information for depots where there are five or fewer people who have worked overtime has been withheld as required by section 40(2) of the FOI Act as personal data of these persons could be identified. Disclosure of this personal data would be a breach of the DPA, specifically the first principle of principle of Article 5 of the UK General Data Protection Regulation which requires all processing of personal data to be fair and lawful. It would not be fair to disclose this personal information when the individuals have no expectation it would be disclosed and TfL has not satisfied one of the conditions which would make the processing ‘fair’.
This exemption to the right of access to information is an absolute exemption and not subject to an assessment of whether the public interest favours use of the exemption.
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely
Gemma Jacob Senior FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
