Please comment on Revenue protection and provide me the data of 1) Dates and times you attempted to protect Revenue since year 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 and 1 April 2018 to present at Harlesden station. Whether on the train or on the platform or ticket barriers. J1k 2) How much money have you been able to recover through fare avoidance whether no fare paid, incorrect fare paid, unauthorised use of payment method, tailgating, barrier hopping, pushing, breaking (I.e. non-production of valid fare):- a) getting people off to buy tickets b) on spot penalty fares (how many and the amount) and indicate if these were paid c) prosecutions through court and the remedy..

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Dear

TfL Ref: FOI-1809-1819

Thank you for your email which we received on 11 October 2018.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy.  I can confirm we hold some of the information you require.

Unfortunately, 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 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 considerably exceed the cost limit to provide a response to your current request. This is because it is estimated that it would take several working days to retrieve and compile the information you have requested.

The information you have requested is not held centrally and would require manual locating and retrieving from various files. In order to extract the information for question one alone, we would have to manually check all of our weekly line duty sheets for all 19 Revenue Control Inspectors (RCIs) who work on the Jubilee Line, going back to 2017, and then noting each time they were deployed to Harlesden station. That’s approximately 52 weeks of duty sheets for 19 RCIs on that line. In accordance with the FOI Act, we are applying the cost limit to your request as a whole.

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 shorter period of time.

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 note that we will not be taking further action until we receive your revised request.

In the meantime, if you have any queries or would like to discuss your request, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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

Yours sincerely

Eva Hextall

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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