FOI request detail

Visitor Oyster Card Numbers

Request ID: FOI-0509-2425
Date published: 07 June 2024

You asked

Can you please tell me how many visitor Oyster cards are issued each year to non-UK residents and if possible tell me the breakdown of those numbers by country (i.e. how many are issued to US visitors).

We answered

Our ref: FOI-0509-2425

 

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 13 May 2024 asking for information about Oyster card travel.

 

Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy. 

 

I can confirm that we do hold the information you require. As you did not specify a time period, please see the attached spreadsheets for financial years 22/23 & 23/24.

 

In accordance with our obligations under Data Protection legislation information on positions where there are five or fewer people in these posts has been withheld, as required by section 40(2) of the FOI Act. This is because disclosure of this personal data would be a breach of the legislation, specifically the first 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 you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

Tahsin Prima

FOI Case Officer

General Counsel

Transport for London

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