Under the Freedom of information Act, I am making the following requests 1. I have attached the TFL Attendance at Work policy. Can you please confirm why the statutory right pursuant to Health and Safety at work at Section 44 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 is not embedded in this TFL policy? For the avoidance of doubt, the details of this legislation are listed in the link below: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/44 If you dont agree, could you direct me to specifically to where in the TFL Attendance at Work policy it is embedded? If you are unable to direct me, are you able to provide me with any TFL policies where the statutory rights pursuant to Health and Safety are embedded? 2. I have attached the TFL Equality and Inclusion Policy. Are you able to provide me with the policies pertaining to both Equality Impact Assessments and Disability Impact Assessments and its iterations over the last 10 years? 3. Can you provide me with the following information in table format specific to each TFL business area (ie Finance, Human Resources etc) who have been involved in the Transformation business reorginaisation? Number of employees per area Number of employees with disabilities per area Number of equality/disability impact assessments conducted per area

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TfL Ref: 0548-1920 and 0549-1920

Thank you for your two requests received by Transport for London (TfL) on 23 May 2019 asking for information about our HR policies / Occupational Health policies.

Your requests have been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm we do hold the information you require.

Unfortunately, to provide the information you have requested would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ of £450 set by the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.

Under section 12 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to comply with a request if we estimate that the cost of determining whether we hold the information, locating and retrieving it and extracting it from other information would exceed the appropriate limit. This is calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the activities described.

Under Regulation 5(2) of the Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limits and Fees) Regulations 2004, we are permitted to aggregate requests where they relate to any extent to the same or similar information and this aggregation applies to any requests that are received within a sixty working day period.

We have estimated that it would significantly exceed the cost limit to provide a response to both your current requests. This is because the second point in part 3 of request (FOI ref 0548-1920) about the number of employees with disabilities in the different business areas would require us to interrogate the personal records and data for around 10000 employees who have been involved to some extent in the Transformation process to ascertain which employees had identified that they had a disability and have asked to have this information placed on their personnel records.  To answer this part alone would significantly exceed the cost limit. This task is made even more challenging and time consuming as many employees will have now moved into other roles or left the organisation and to retrieve and compile the information you have requested would require very specific and time consuming analysis.

To help bring the cost of responding to your request within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider narrowing its scope so that we can more easily locate, retrieve and extract the information you are seeking. If you want to refine your request or make a Freedom of Information Act request in future, please bear in mind that the Freedom of Information Act allows you to request recorded information held by us. You should identify the information that you want as clearly and concisely as you can, specifying the types of document that you are looking for. You might also consider limiting your request to a particular period of time, geographical area or specific departments of the organisation. We believe from looking at your requests that we would be able to answer the other parts of your request reference 0548-1920 and for case reference 0549-1920, we would also be able to provide a specific policy if you identified clearly which one(s) you are particularly interested in.

Please be aware that, under the FOI Act, we do not have to answer a request if it would require the creation of new information or the provision of a judgement, explanation, advice or opinion that was not already recorded at the time of the request. On this basis, questions 3-6 inclusive of your request reference 0549-1920 and question 1 of your request reference 0548-1920 are not requests for recorded information and therefore do not fall under FOI.

Please note that we will not be taking further action until we receive your revised request.

In the meantime, if you have any queries or would like to discuss your request, 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

Sara Thomas

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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