How many suburban taxi driver licenses have been reported as lost in tbe last12 montbs
Request ID: FOI-1578-1718
Date published: 16 October 2017
You asked
Please can you tell me how many suburban taxi driver licenses have been reported lost in the last 12 months.
We answered
Our ref: FOI-1578-1718/GH
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 22 September 2017 asking for the number of suburban taxi driver licences which have been reported lost in the last 12 months.
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 the information you require. However, 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 requests 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. In this instance, we estimate that the time required to answer your request would exceed 18 hours which, at £25 per hour (the rate stipulated by the Regulations), exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’.
The number of suburban taxi driver licences which have been reported lost in the last 12 months is not something that can be easily reported on. Therefore we would need to carry out a manual search of all driver records to answer your request, and this would take an excessive amount of time.
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
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