An article entitled "Safety Last" found on page 36 of the 10-23 August 2018 edition (No. 1476) of Private Eye refers to a 'recent report to the Board' which mentions "7000 road traffic collisions, 1600 injuries, 400 people sent to hospital and 200 killed or seriously injured (KSI) every quarter in incidents involving buses" and furthermore states "The trends have not been going in the right direction in any area of bus safety for years: not injuries, not collisions, not slips trips and falls, not hospitalisations, not KSIs, not deaths." Please provide me with a complete copy of this report.

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Our Ref:         FOI-1345-1819

Thank you for your request received on 10 August 2018 asking for a copy of the report submitted to the TfL Board regarding bus safety performance. I apologise for the delay in my response.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and TfL’s information access policy.

We do not hold the information you have requested. No report with these specific figures was made to the TfL Board. However, we have searched for any reports or briefings that could be interpreted as a report to the board. We have found that these figures were set out in an email from a TfL Board Member to other board members. Apologies for the delay in this response, which was partly down to the time taken to identify the source of the figures you cited.

Please find this e-mail attached. Please note that in accordance with TfL’s obligations under Data Protection legislation some personal data has been removed, 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 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’.

The data referred to  forms part of the quarterly data on bus-related road traffic collisions published by TfL on its website: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/bus-safety-data. Bus safety data is also included in TfL’s quarterly Health, Safety & Environment reports to its Safety, Sustainability and HR Panel, and in its Customer and Operational Performance Report, which is submitted to both its Customer Service and Operational Performance Panel and its Board. These reports are also published on the TfL website.

Our ongoing work to improve bus safety includes support and training for drivers, as well as new safety technology, redesigning London’s buses and making road junctions safer.

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for some reason, please feel free to contact me.

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

Yours sincerely

Gemma Jacob

Senior FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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