FOI request detail

Harassment & Assault for Private Hire app-based workers

Request ID: FOI-0477-2122
Date published: 24 June 2021

You asked
Please may you provide me with: Statistics on all recorded instances of verbal abuse, physical assault, discrimination including all forms of abuse and harassment against workers for all of the private hire driving companies you license, including but not limited to the following companies: Uber, Bolt and Lyft. Please provide the information electronically and in as much detail as possible, including a topline percentage of the entire app-based workforce who have been affected.

We answered

Our Ref:         FOI-0477-2122

Thank you for clarifying your request for information about harassment and assault experienced by private hire app-based workers.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy. 

We do not hold the information you have requested. These incidents would typically be reported to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as well as to the operators employing the workers so they would hold this information. Please contact the MPS or the operators directly. The MPS can be contacted via their website:

https://www.met.police.uk/rqo/request/ri/request-information/rip/request-information-police/

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

Yours sincerely

Gemma Jacob
Senior FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London

[email protected]
 

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