Request ID: FOI-1814-2324 Date published: 04 October 2023
You asked
Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is and I am one of the reporters here at . I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request data on the amount that of money that has been raised from the ULEZ policy. If possible, can the following figures be provided in a spreadsheet.
How much money has been generated from ULEZ in:
1. 2022 (January -December)
2. J2023 (January to 31st August)
Please can you distinguish between the sources of this money (i.e how much of the money came from penalty charge notices vs money coming from the daily ULEZ charge)
Can you provide a sum by sum breakdown of how that money has been spent. If the money was re-invested into TFL please can you provide a breakdown into which parts of TFL received these funds.
We answered
TfL Ref: 1814-2324
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 3 September 2023 asking for information about the expenditure raised from ULEZ and how it is spent.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Information Regulations (EIRs) and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold the information you require. Your questions and our replies are as follows:
How much money has been generated from ULEZ in:
2022 (January -December)
2023 (January to 31st August)
Please can you distinguish between the sources of this money (i.e how much of the money came from penalty charge notices vs money coming from the daily ULEZ charge)
Please note that we use periods of 28 days rather than calendar months for our financial reporting
For 2022, the money generated from ULEZ between the 9th of January 2022 to the 7th of January 2023 was £230m, of which £150m came from daily charges levied on drivers of non-compliant vehicles entering the zone and £80m from PCN income. For 2023 (8th January to 19th August, which was the last reporting period up to the date of your request), the total money generated was £108m, of which £68m came from daily charges and £40m from PCN income. Net revenue is projected to continue to decline and to be zero by 2027, as more people change their vehicles to less polluting ones.
It is a statutory requirement that any net revenue generated by our road charging schemes (the ULEZ, LEZ or the Congestion Charge) is reinvested back into London’s transport network, including investing in improving transport links in outer London. All money received from the ULEZ is reinvested into improving London’s public transport network, such as expanding bus routes in outer London. Can you provide a sum by sum breakdown of how that money has been spent. If the money was re-invested into TFL please can you provide a breakdown into which parts of TFL received these funds.
We are applying Regulation 12(4)(b) to this part of your request as we believe that it is ‘manifestly unreasonable’ because locating, extracting and collating all the information you have requested to answer this question would impose unreasonable costs on us and require an unreasonable diversion of resources. We can advise however that the net proceeds raised from our Road User Charging schemes must be applied for purposes that directly or indirectly facilitate the implementation or any policies or proposals set out in the Mayor’s Transport Strategy which can be accessed using the following link: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/the-mayors-transport-strategy.
The use of this exception is subject to a public interest test, which requires us to consider whether the public interest in applying the exception outweighs the public interest in disclosure. We recognise that the release of information would promote accountability and transparency in public services. However, the time it would take to provide the information you have requested would divert a disproportionate amount of our resources from its core functions and on balance we consider that the public interest currently favours the use of the exception.
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any 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
Sara Thomas FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
