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Questions asked to Uber during 2012 licensing process

Request ID: FOI-1669-1718
Date published: 20 October 2017

You asked
In 2012 Uber London Limited applied for a private hire operator Licence, In the course of determining an application, TFL is entitled, pursuant to section 15 (2) of PHV (London) 1998 Act, to ask for such information as it may reasonably require to enable it to determine the application. Can you please answer the following questions: (1) Did TFL exercise its right to ask UBER questions? (2) If the answer to question (1) is ‘yes’, please advise what questions were asked.

We answered

TfL Ref: FOI-1669-1718

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 27 September 2017 asking for information about a licensing process.

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 information held in relation to Uber’s application for a private hire operator’s licence has already previously been disclosed in response to other FOI requests. Please see a copy of the documents we have disclosed attached, in which you will find the information you have requested.

Please note that in accordance with TfL’s obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) 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 DPA, specifically the first principle of the DPA 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 of Schedule 2 of the Data Protection Act which would make the processing ‘fair’.

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

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely

Lee Hill

Senior FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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