1. How much money has TfL paid out for Taxis in the following years: 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2. What were the top 5 most expensive taxi journies that TfL paid for in the 2019/20 year?

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Our Ref: FOI-0710-2021

Thank you for your request received on 29 July 2020 asking for information about expenditure on taxi journeys.

Your request has 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.

All expenditure within the organisation is carefully assessed to ensure it is essential to providing a safe, efficient, extensive and reliable transport network, including expenses incurred by employees who often are called upon to travel out of the capital on business and attend conferences and other out of hours business related activities.

Our staff are responsible for operating a world class transport network transporting millions of people around the capital each day. As a result of running a transport network on this scale, our staff sometimes have to travel across the UK, Europe, and the world to meet with suppliers as well as learning from and offering our expertise on running such a huge network to other world leading cities.

Expenses claims in relation to taxi journeys will typically be from staff who are called upon to travel out of the capital on business and attend conferences and other out of hours business related activities. Taxis are also used to help staff get to and from their work locations overnight when they are working.

You asked:

1. How much money has TfL paid out for Taxis in the following years:

	Total
2015/16	£46,137.68
2016/17	£35,726.37
2017/18	£33,808.05
2018/19	£23,800.01
2019/20	£24,316.28

1. What were the top 5 most expensive taxi journeys that TfL paid for in the 2019/20 year?

Reason	Amount
Milan Linate Airport to the Piacenza Best Western Park Hotel. This trip was taken after 9pm and was the cheapest way of travelling as there were five people in the taxi. The team were in Italy to visit Telema regarding brake resistors.	£ 215.31
Weekend working on ULEZ go live project. Taxi was to get employee home after midnight on a Sunday night.	£148.80
Weekend working on ULEZ go live project. Taxi was to get employee home at 3am on a Sunday.	£109.40
Taxi from Washington International to hotel during business trip.	£100.92
Weekend working on ULEZ go live project. Taxi was to get employee home at 3am on a Sunday.	£99.60

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