Full Audit of the ULEZ Car and motorcycle scrappage scheme
Request ID: FOI-1247-2223 Date published: 12 September 2022
You asked
F/on from FOI-1003
Thank you for your email. Please provide a breakdown of the number of applications made per borough with further breakdown of numbers accepted/rejected per borough.
Please also provide details of the number of people involved in reviewing each case, specially for stage 1. For example if the final accept/reject decisions were made by three people, please provide details of their decisions per borough.
We answered
Our ref: FOI-1247-2223/GH
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 19 August 2022 asking for further information about the ULEZ Car and motorcycle scrappage scheme.
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 some of the information you require.
Please provide a breakdown of the number of applications made per borough with further breakdown of numbers accepted/rejected per borough.
This information has been published in response to a recent Mayor’s Question. The published response can be found here: https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2022/0487 Please note that under section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act we are not obliged to provide you with information which is reasonably accessible by other means.
Please also provide details of the number of people involved in reviewing each case, specially for stage 1. For example if the final accept/reject decisions were made by three people, please provide details of their decisions per borough.
Scrappage applications are considered in line with the requirements as set out in the terms and conditions. The applications are considered by one person and a decision made.
If the stage one application is accepted or rejected when it first comes in then it will usually only be dealt with by one person. However as part of that process they could discuss the matter with a Team Leader or seek further advice and therefore more than one person may have been involved.
Notes of any escalation or discussion would be recorded on the account, but we are unable to report on any such notes without manually looking at each decision. This would take an excessive amount of time which 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.
If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.
Yours sincerely
Graham Hurt FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
