I am looking to request the following information. In London, how many employed drivers by Uber are known to have criminal records please? Please can this information be broken down for employees hired by the company from January 2017 to April 2018.

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Our ref: FOI-0839-1819

Thank you for your request received on 28 June 2018 asking for information about Uber drivers’ criminal records.

Your request has been processed in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. You asked:

In London, how many employed drivers by Uber are known to have criminal records please?

Please can this information be broken down for employees hired by the company from January 2017 to April 2018.

Unfortunately, to provide you with the further 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.

We have estimated that it would exceed the cost limit to provide a response to your request as we would need to manually check through thousands of driver records to determine if they drive for Uber and whether they hold any criminal convictions.

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 Transport for London. 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 TfL.

Although your request can take the form of a question, rather than a request for specific documents, TfL does not have to answer your question 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 your request.

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

Yours sincerely,

Melissa Nichols

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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